UNC officials are looking to strengthen financial penalties against any of the system’s four N.C. Promise universities that enroll too many first-time, first-year student from out of state. The prospective move, pending no earlier than January, comes after Fayetteville State University enrolled 43 more out-of-staters this fall than the 198 the system’s quotas would have […]
Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during a North Carolina immigration crackdown centered around Charlotte, the state’s largest city, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday. The operation that began over the weekend is the latest phase of Republican President Donald Trump’s aggressive mass deportation efforts […]
Brian Dabbs & Francisco “A.J.” Camacho/E&E News The Trump administration wants to churn dirt on a bevy of new nuclear power plants. Electric utilities that power America have different plans. Despite forecasts for spiking electricity use and pledges from the Department of Energy to bolster nuclear power, utilities aren’t inking contracts to build new plants […]
Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News Chris Hatton oversees a 15-officer police force in a small western North Carolina town in Jackson County — a place where he says many calls to 911 aren’t really police matters at all. A “suspicious” person loitering. Someone yelling in the street. A person rummaging through a dumpster. Someone in a […]
Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Declaring that Henderson County commissioners had made “incorrect statements” about the status of a $12.7 million sewer system grant, state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom on Tuesday night asked commissioners to correct the record. “Given that the article’s language — including ‘lost,’ ‘defunded,’ ‘slapped around,’ and warnings that the county ‘will have to give […]
WCHL Chapelboro While the longest federal government shutdown in the United States’ history garnered much attention across recent weeks, North Carolina’s government is facing its own operational roadblock. While the state is still functioning, it is doing so without a new comprehensive, two-year budget — becoming the last state in the nation to not pass […]
Nick de la Canal/WFAE Radio Yessica Arias, owner of Central Friends Tires, says U.S. Border Patrol agents took one of her employees, a Nicaraguan man who was her “best mechanic,” and had no criminal record. The man had been seeking asylum in the U.S. As part of a sweeping immigration crackdown in Charlotte this week, […]
Jane Porter/IndyWeek Following a debate over a longstanding dispute at the Apex Town Council meeting Thursday evening, town leaders still haven’t found a good solution to what they’ve considered to be a significant problem in recent years: an Apex resident operating a for-profit parking lot in a residential area near Apex Friendship High School. Outgoing […]
Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily The reins have been pulled in a little tighter when it comes to regulating ATVs on Carolina Beach. The town council voted 4-1 with council member Joe Benson dissenting at its Nov. 12 meeting to approve text amendments for Chapter 28 Section 28-1 ordinance on beach services, and in particular, over […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Deepening the Wilmington Harbor would disperse PFAS now mingling in the riverbed’s sediment into marshes and onto public beaches, accelerate erosion, exacerbate flooding, destroy habitat, and is not economically justified, area residents said during a state-hosted public hearing. Many who spoke at the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management’s hearing in […]
Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise Election officials will conduct a recount of the close race for Thomasville mayor in which the top two candidates are separated by 17 votes out of more than 2,300 ballots cast. Councilman Jacquez Johnson, the second-place finisher, requested the recount. He had until noon Tuesday to make the request. […]
Charlotte’s landed its second corporate headquarters project in as many weeks with Tuesday’s announcement that international shipping giant Maersk will put one of its subsidiaries in the city. Maersk Agency USA is moving its HQ from New Jersey to Charlotte, expanding here on an operation that already employs about 670 people. The move represents a […]
RTP-based Vulcan Elements says it’s going to build a $1 billion magnet factory in Benson, a project that has it promising state officials will create 1,000 new jobs. To secure the project, state and local governments put together a $120.1 million incentives package. The largest components of that are $52.1 million and $42.6 million in […]
State Auditor Dave Boliek on Tuesday waded into the middle of the Stein administration’s debate with legislators about Medicaid funding, issuing a report that claims DHHS had $386 million in lapsed salaries in fiscal 2024-25. Source-wise, $151 million of that came from state appropriations and $235 million from other sources including the federal government, his […]
North Carolina’s water-resources planning has considerable strengths, but to keep it a plus factor in the state’s business-recruiting wars, officials need to bolster it, a new report from the NC Chamber contends. Among other things, planners need better data and to make it more widely available. That’s a problem because a key set of stream-flow […]
