Kevin Ellis/Business North Carolina Two sold-out nights of Banana Ball at Bank of America Stadium in June generated $38.6 million in total economic impact, based on a report by the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority released Wednesday. Those numbers compare favorably to last year’s ACC football championship game between Clemson and SMU or the Duke Mayo’s […]
They just don’t stop having drama in Cabarrus County. The Charlotte Observer and other media outlets in the Interstate 77 corridor report that the Cabarrus County Commissioners voted 3-2 on Monday to fire their new county manager, Sean Newton. For those keeping score, that’s the second manager the Cabarrus Commissioners have sacked this year. Longtime […]
A divided N.C. Court of Appeals panel has invalidated the Durham County Commissioners’ approval of a 141-home, 288-acre “conservation subdivision” off U.S. 501 in the rural northern part of the county. The decision overturned a lower-court ruling that had favored the project’s Florida-based developer. Republican appeals Judges Donna Stroud and Michael Stading said the commissioners’ unanimous […]
North Carolina needs a quicker and more predictable approval process for power-generation and grid upgrades, no matter the technology a project’s backers are pursuing, a new report from the NC Chamber Foundation says. “If North Carolina is to meet its energy goals while supporting rapid economic growth, the regulatory environment must be more efficient, transparent […]
WRAL News Rip currents and large waves from Erin prompted coastal towns to issue no-swimming advisories lasting through Friday. The National Hurricane Center said the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda will face a risk of dangerous surf and rip currents across the western Atlantic basin throughout the week. To assist in the potential rip impacts […]
Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Some employers and health systems in North Carolina are looking to change how they manage prescription drug benefits for their employees. More employers are considering alternative pharmacy benefit managers — or PBMs — to run the drug benefits in their employees’ health insurance plan. For the past few years, the market […]
Sarah White/The Mountaineer N.C. Rep. Mark Pless doesn’t have a strong record of following campaign finance rules. In just the last four years, he’s garnered six late filing penalties — the latest could put a hold on his campaign spending entirely. Political candidates and representatives must file regular reports of money they receive and spend […]
Chantal Brown/Education NC The State Board of Community Colleges reflected at its meeting last week on the work of the previous academic year while looking toward a future without current N.C. Community College System (NCCCS) President Dr. Jeff Cox, who announced his retirement earlier this month, effective June 30, 2026. During the meeting, Cox addressed […]
Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online It was the massive scale of destruction in the North Carolina mountains after Hurricane Helene last year that spotlighted how advantageous microgrids — small independent power grids — can be to communities that have suffered disasters. After horrific flash floods from the storm that hit Sept. 27 inundated many of Asheville’s […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press When Southeast Middle School social studies teacher Eric Shock’s eighth-graders walked into class one day last semester, they noticed a piece of paper on the board. It was a bill being considered by the North Carolina General Assembly that would ban cellphones in schools. His students weren’t happy. “Of course, all […]
Port City Daily The New Hanover County commissioners chose to change the process by which additional units above a zoning district’s allowance are approved, thus opening up each request to more layperson scrutiny. The commissioners voted unanimously Monday to change the process for obtaining an additional dwelling allowance from special use permit to conditional zoning. […]
Lily Levin/Smoky Mountain News Kevin Seagle, chair of the Swain County board of commissioners, has given the county his resignation effective Aug. 31, according to Swain County Sheriff Brian Kirkland. Amid rumors of his resignation that have swirled the last week, Seagle was absent from the meeting and Vice Chair Tanner Lawson assumed Seagle’s regular […]
Miles Parks/WUNC Radio A staffer with the Kenosha County clerk’s office sets up voting booths on Oct. 21, 2024, in preparation for in-person early voting in Kenosha, Wis. Turnover among the country’s election officials has continued to increase — now nearly five years after Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 contest led to […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Black Political Caucus (BPC) has endorsed political newcomer Joi Mayo in her bid to unseat embattled Charlotte City Council District 3 incumbent Tiawana Brown. Mayo narrowly edged Brown in BPC voting, 46–45. Brown questioned the result, saying one of her supporters requested a BPC ballot but did not receive one. Montravias […]
Senate leader Phil Berger and his staff rolled out the chamber’s new joint-oversight committee assignments on Tuesday. Perhaps the biggest changes are to the Senate’s representation on the Revenue Laws Study Committee, which is getting some high-level new members despite having been relatively inactive in recent years. Deputy President Pro Tem Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell, is […]
