Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio Susan Bean got off the bus a stop or two too late. The bus — the S3, down Hendersonville Road in South Asheville — completes a regular two-hour loop to the airport and back. Bean was hoping to get off at a location where she would be able to easily […]
To the surprise of few, one suspects, Duke Health and Aetna have ended their quarrel and agreed to a new contract that keeps Aetna’s patients in-network when they use Duke’s facilities and personnel. Duke announced the deal on Friday and said only that throughout the talks, it’d “remained committed to serving our patients and their […]
Federal regulators say the revised, shorter routing of the proposed MVP Southgate gas pipeline should have “fewer environmental effects” than the original one they’ve already approved. Their recommended finding of no significant impact means the project has cleared one more of the hurdles it faces before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission green-lights construction. Pipeline sponsors […]
U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-11th, appears likely to face a challenge in next spring’s Republican primary. Adam R. Smith, an Army veteran, announced his candidacy on Thursday. Via a news release, he said he’s running because he’s fed up “after a decade of watching liberal Marxism erode our Constitution, flood our borders and fuel inflation […]
Environmental advocates in North Carolina slammed Duke Energy’s long-term vision for power generation, as disclosed this week in a regulatory filing. But the state’s main business lobby praised the report. The biennial Carolinas Resource Plan shows how Duke intends to provide electricity for its nearly 4 million N.C. customers over the next decade. The state […]
Senate Bill 266’s rework of North Carolina’s carbon-reduction targets was partly intended to buy time for Duke Energy to develop additional nuclear power plants, but the utility remains cagey on whether it actually will. Duke’s plan for nuclear development is to a large degree about keeping its options open, and for letting others take the […]
Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog The Blue Ridge Room, a parquet-floored hall in the University of North Carolina Asheville’s Highsmith Student Union, can accommodate an audience of nearly 500. On a Wednesday night in April, the room had been arranged to fit a crowd about one-third that size. Later, after a couple dozen people were left outside, […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView Tensions among Cumberland County Republicans led to a physical altercation at a raucous GOP meeting on Thursday night, and two GOP activists levied misdemeanor assault charges against each other. The intra-party controversy stems from a dispute on whether it was wrong for five Republican leaders in the party, who operate the Independent Conservative […]
Morgan Casey/Border Belt Independent Over a dozen Fayetteville State University School of Nursing students on Tuesday made their way to the front of Seabrook Auditorium’s front lobby. They gathered around Darrell Allison, the university chancellor, and a display easel covered in a black cloth for a big announcement. One student’s jaw dropped when Allison peeled […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Louisburg Mayor Christopher Neal thinks there’s about a 95% chance next week’s mayoral election will go to a runoff. If so, the 3,400 some odd-taxpayers in Louisburg, situated in the center of northeastern Franklin County, will be on the hook for up to $10,000 in estimated additional costs as a result […]
Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio With a video message on Friday, Gov. Josh Stein announced that he has signed the criminal justice reform bill known as “Iryna’s Law.” The General Assembly passed House Bill 307 in response to the widely publicized stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska on board a Charlotte light rail car. It included a slew […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The prospective buyer of a long-vacant office building in downtown High Point has cleared a hurdle in its plans to rehabilitate the property. The North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office recently approved architectural plans for the redevelopment of Showplace West at 101 S. Main St. with about 130 apartments and […]
Sophia Luna/Education NC The governor’s Advisory Council for Student Safety and Well-Being meeting on Sept. 29 included discussions about challenges and opportunities to better support students’ mental health. Gov. Josh Stein formed the council in April with the mission to “propose and further implement solutions to promote school safety and improve student physical, social, and […]
Sarah White & Kathy Ross/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Some residents in the Dogwood Lakes neighborhood and the lower end of Beantown Road are worried a bad situation is repeating itself with an encampment along Jonathan Creek bringing back memories of a similar situation four years ago. The property owner, meanwhile, says the two situations are different, […]
Will Doran/WRAL News At their last formal meeting before Halloween, held Tuesday, some of North Carolina’s top elected officials were feeling spooked by a potential threat to trick-or-treaters: THC-laced candies, cookies and other treats whose packaging mimicks well-known brands. THC is legal, in small amounts, in North Carolina. The chemical can be found in illegal […]
