Toyota’s new $12.9 billion battery factory near Liberty remains a key piece of its plans for the U.S. going forward, company executives said this week during their latest earnings announcement. “In all regions of the world, we want to produce locally and procure locally so that we can manufacture cars on that basis in each […]
North Carolina’s ferry system needs a significant infusion of money to ensure its continued reliability, deal with the upkeep on its boats and to update its maintenance yards, its leader says. Ferry Division Director Jed Dixon and his staff reckon the system needs $23.5 million more a year in recurring funding, almost a 38% increase […]
Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Starting this month, small businesses in North Carolina will have a new option to provide health insurance to their employees. The Carolina HealthWorks program launched this week following a change the legislature made to insurance regulations last year. The N.C. Chamber is working with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina to […]
Shaun Gallagher/WRAL News Travelers hustled along the walkways and terminals at their usual pace on Thursday morning at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Planes took off and landed on a regular schedule. Preparations were being made ahead of the looming busy travel season. RDU isn’t expected to be one of the airports targeted by FAA cuts. However, […]
Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press When stepping into a local library to pick up a new book or use the provided internet access or take your child to a storytime hour, a security officer might not be the first person you expect to see. But at libraries in Wake County, that’s almost guaranteed to be the […]
Anne Blythe/NC Health News Though Louise Mae Beale Vincent was a woman small in stature, she left a monumental legacy in her 49 years. The Greensboro native became an unlikely international force, a giant in the harm-reduction movement who pushed throughout her life against society’s dehumanization, isolation and rejection of drug users. Vincent, a self-described […]
Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Coty Reece sat in the fall night air and bit down on rage and embarrassment in equal measure. In the five years since the motorcycle accident that paralyzed him from the waist down, he’d always been able to get where he wanted to go — until now. It was County Clash […]
Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News Overwhelmingly, municipal officials take pride in their nonpartisan service, but once they’re elected, they don’t just leave their party hats at the chamber doors. Despite claims that “there’s no Republican/Democratic way to fill a pothole,” the partisan composition of municipal governing boards can be an indicator of how those boards approach […]
Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden announced Thursday that he is running for reelection in 2026. In his announcement, McFadden said he’s fulfilled the promises he made in previous campaigns and plans to lead a third term being “factual, fearless and faithful.” McFadden was first elected in 2018. He retired after more than […]
David Ford/WFDD Radio This weekend in High Point, renowned Danish artist Thomas Dambo will unveil his enormous new outdoor troll sculpture. Just west of downtown, there’s a small clearing in some vine-covered woods behind an abandoned sock factory. There sits a smiling, 18-foot-tall troll. Her name is Little Sally. Dambo and his team of local […]
Matthew Sockol/WNCN The victim of a homicide in Wake County almost 60 years ago has been identified, the sheriff’s office said on Thursday. According to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, the body of a woman was discovered on April 28, 1968, in a field near Lake Wheeler Road and Ten Ten Road in the southern […]
Capt. Gordon Churchill/Coastal Review Online I’m now in my 60th year of life. I started fishing before I was even old enough to have a memory of it. I’ve been fly fishing since I was 10 years old. The math is pretty easy. During that time I’ve lived in North Carolina for 30 of those […]
North Carolina’s Court of Appeals found itself having to referee an arbitration dispute between two sets of sports agents that emerged after their attempts to form an alliance fell apart. Judge Allegra Collins and two of her colleagues ruled that the NFL Players Association has no role in trying to resolve a dispute between Charlotte-based […]
There is a partisan element to some of these outcomes, even if on the ballot they were nonpartisan races. Perkins, Matheny, Waddell and Robinson are Republicans who lost to Democrats. In Charlotte, where candidates for city office run on party labels, the only Republican winner City Council incumbent Ed Driggs, who ran unopposed in a southeast […]
Tuesday wasn’t exactly a great night for incumbents in a number of the state’s larger cities. Our non-exhaustive review of this year’s election results begins in Greensboro, where voters sacked a trio of City Council incumbents. The highest-profile of these was District 3 Councilman Zack Matheny, who heads Downtown Greensboro Inc. Matheny’s critics have argued […]
