Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Spontaneous combustion deep within a flood debris landfill blanketed the greater Canton area with smoke this week, and landfill operators and firefighters currently have no way to extinguish the enormous smoldering mountain of mulch. “It’s been on fire, that we know of, deep down inside of it, for a little over […]
Ben Crosbie/WCHL Chapelboro Clinical research company Thermo Fisher Scientific held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of its new facility in Mebane on Thursday. Production will begin within the next few weeks at the 375,000-square-foot facility, which will focus mainly on manufacturing precision pipette tips for use in labs around the world. Thermo Fisher […]
Nancy McCleary/Sanford Herald The Lee County commissioners voted to move ahead with the process involved in securing a lease agreement from the state for the Endor Iron Furnace property. The 426-acre tract along the Deep River in Cumnock is a designated historic site owned by the state, according to Chad Spivey, who has spearheaded much […]
The NC Chamber’s new energy policy report expects renewables to keep making inroads despite the enactment of Senate Bill 266 and its elimination of North Carolina’s interim carbon-reduction goal. Instead of flowing from the now-moot 70%-by-2030 target, the pace and scale of solar and wind-energy deployment will depend on cost factors, the capacity of the […]
Here’s a good-news/bad-news thing for North Carolinians: Novo Nordisk is feeling the effects of increased competition for its popular GLP-1 drugs, Wegovy and Ozempic. The good news in that is downward pressure on prices. The bad news is that downward pressure on prices is translating into downward pressure on profit growth — and the Danish […]
In a case that drew interest from the NC Chamber and other business groups, the state Court of Appeals has rejected a constitutional challenge to North Carolina’s limits on medical-malpractice damage awards. Writing for a unanimous and bipartisan panel, Court of Appeals Chief Judge Chris Dillon said state legislators “generally have the power to determine […]
Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio North Carolina could take a $3 billion hit to its economy if a White House request to slash National Institutes of Health funding ends up in the final federal budget. In its discretionary budget proposal for next fiscal year, the Trump Administration recommended a 40% cut to the agency’s funding and consolidation […]
Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News Waves from Hurricane Erin surged over N.C. Highway 12, Wednesday, pushing seawater and sand across the asphalt and breaching dunes along the fragile barrier islands of the Outer Banks. For longtime residents, scenes like this are no longer rare. And a new collaborative study suggests that these disruptions are only the beginning. […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The Brunswick County Board of Education voted to pay for its students’ Advanced Placement exams this school year after the North Carolina Senate chose to nix its coverage in its proposed budget. The school board took up the issue at its Tuesday committee meetings. Though the North Carolina General Assembly has […]
Amy McCraw/Hendersonville Lightning Not much has changed on Lake Summit nearly a year after Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina. Water continues to pour freely over the inoperable and aging dam on the lake. And while the Scottsdale, Ariz., company that owns the Tuxedo Hydroelectric Project and state inspectors say the dam is structurally sound, […]
Guy Lucas Enterprise/The (High Point) Enterprise Classes at High Point University began this week with a freshman class nearly 10% larger than last year’s, the university announced Thursday. The class numbers 1,671 students, up 143, or 9.4%, from last year’s freshman class and accounts for the bulk of HPU’s overall enrollment increase of 215 to […]
Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News In the wake of the controversy surrounding former Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran, the new sheriff, Brian Kirkland, only a month and a half on the job, will have company on the ballot come 2026. While sheriff candidates filing this early isn’t unheard of (there’s already a challenger for Macon County […]
Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A bridge across Jonathan Creek that was destroyed by Helene has still not been repaired, leaving residents in the area frustrated and confused about the delay. Haywood County Bridge 46 connects Coleman Mountain Road to Jonathan Creek Road near the Interstate 40 exit 20 entrance ramp. Or at least it did […]
Jeremy McDermott/InSight Crime Even as the infamy of the Tren de Aragua grows in the Americas, its cohesion and organization are weakening. The assertion by the regime of Nicolás Maduro that Tren de Aragua has been wiped out in Venezuela is fiction. The taking of the prison of Tocorón, the gang’s headquarters, was a huge […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Registered voters of Holden Beach will decide this November whether to approve a multi-million bond that would pay for construction of a new town-owned pier. Holden Beach commissioners on Tuesday evening unanimously agreed to move ahead with plans to get a $7.3 million bond referendum added to the Nov. 4 ballot. […]
