Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Henderson County has not only lost a $12.7 million grant to fund the Clear Creek sewer line in Edneyville but most likely would forfeit an option B —making major repairs to the failing Etowah sewer system. That was among the revelations to come out of a meeting of a Board of Commissioners […]
Justin Jouvenal/The Washington Post The Supreme Court appeared skeptical of arguments Wednesday that President Donald Trump has legal authority to impose tariffs on a vast range of goods from nearly all countries, signaling the justices could strike down or limit the administration’s signature economic policy. The justices sharply questioned Solicitor General D. John Sauer and […]
The Associated Press Video game maker Epic Games has reached a “comprehensive settlement” with Google that could end its 5-year-old legal crusade targeting Google’s Play Store for Android apps. Epic and Google revealed the settlement agreement in a joint legal document they filed in a San Francisco federal court Tuesday. They said it “would allow […]
David A. Lieb/The Associated Press The new congressional map that California voters approved marked a victory for Democrats in the national redistricting battle playing out ahead of the 2026 midterm election. But Republicans are still ahead in the fight. The unusual mid-decade redistricting fray began this summer when President Donald Trump urged Republican-led states to […]
Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News When the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina began renovating its Sandhills branch in 2023, the nonprofit did not expect the project’s completion to coincide with the threat of a national hunger crisis. The $1 million overhaul of the Moore County facility, which also serves Lee, Richmond and Scotland […]
Caroline Parker/Education NC Dr. Tabitha Miller went to 13 different K-12 schools growing up. Her father was a traveling evangelist, preaching at tent revivals across the Midwest. Her mother told stories of watching tornados form on the Great Plains while they were staying in Kansas. They lived a long stretch in Texas, and then the […]
Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily Aerosol spray, nearly hour-long speeches, and neighborly disputes have all been part of recent public comment periods at the Southport Board of Aldermen meetings. Now, the aldermen are taking a step in the direction of restoring civility. On Monday, the aldermen voted 5 to 1 (Lowe Davis dissenting) to pass a […]
Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The steady loss of workers who keep Waynesville’s water running and streets clean has town leaders on edge. At the Oct. 28 meeting, council heard grim numbers and took action, voting to fund a pay study meant to stop an exodus that’s led to tremendous turnover and left nine out of […]
Outer Banks Voice Retired Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett has announced his candidacy for the District 1 seat in the NC Senate. That seat is currently held by Republican Bobby Hanig, who is running for Congress next year in a reconfigured First Congressional District. This past May, Tillett retired from the bench after more than […]
Christopher Long/The Wilson Times The Wilson Planning and Design Review Board unanimously voted in favor of approving two rezoning requests for future residential projects during Tuesday night’s monthly meeting. Board members approved rezoning 115.48 acres along U.S. Highway 264 Alternate West between Wilson and Sims to develop a conditional low-density housing development. The subdivision, Millstone […]
Perhaps the most vexing issue facing the Local Government Commission is the the troubles North Carolina’s smallest towns have in keeping their finances in order. Tuesday’s meeting highlighted this again when the commission decided to again hold off on giving the town of Speed its full allotment of state-shared sales-tax revenue. Speed is three years […]
The returns late Tuesday evening are still both incomplete and unofficial, but Mecklenburg County voters appear to have approved the proposed 1-cent sales-tax surcharge to pay for transit and road construction. State Board of Elections figures with all but three precincts yet to report showed the tax referendum passing with about 52.2% of the vote. […]
LGC members didn’t voice any concerns about the Durham project, but they did have questions about two other affordable-housing initiatives in Charlotte and Raleigh. The Charlotte project envisions building 238 units off West Boulevard near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, for people making up to 60% of the area median income. Backers see that project costing […]
Local Government Commission members on Tuesday approved financing for a passel of affordable-housing projects around the state, among them one for a site in Durham that’s defied redevelopment for the bulk of this century. The LGC’s vote included authorization for the Durham Housing Authority to issue $44 million in conduit revenue bonds for a 252-unit […]
Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline A plurality of North Carolinians hold President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress responsible for the federal government shutdown, a new Catawba College-YouGov poll found, but Democrats and “all elected officials” are also taking blame. Asked who they think is “most responsible for the current government shutdown,” 22.8% of respondents […]
