Congress may not let the Trump administration have the last word on the legalization of supersonic flight over U.S. soil. Before the holidays, the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee reported out H.R. 3410, the “Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act.” Its co-sponsors include several members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation — namely U.S. Reps. David Rouzer, […]
Duke Energy has asked federal regulators to approve the idea of using part of its Belews Creek property in Stokes County as the site for a set of small nuclear reactors. The utility on Tuesday applied to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for an “early site permit,” which entails reviewing the environmental and site-safety factors […]
A federal judge has delayed until mid-January a hearing on Dominion Energy’s request that he block a Trump administration stop-work order targeting the utility’s $11.2 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. U.S. District Court Judge Jamar Walker’s ruling came at the administration’s urging, and he’s already rejected Dominion’s request that he reconsider the delay. Previously, […]
Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Free parking in downtown Greensboro has been shrinking for years, but the latest move by the City of Greensboro makes it worse – much more of what used to be easy, free parking is about to cost you money. The city, playing the Grinch, announced just before Christmas that several downtown […]
Shauneen Miranda/NC Newsline President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled Monday hundreds of millions of dollars each state will receive this fiscal year as part of a massive $50 billion rural health fund baked into Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law. The five-year Rural Health Transformation Program — authorized under GOP lawmakers’ mega tax and spending cut package Trump […]
Felicia Sonmez/Blue Ridge Public Radio & WFAE Radio North Carolina and 11 other states have won a lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency over millions of dollars in grants they said the Trump administration was withholding. The funding — through the Emergency Management Performance Grant and the Homeland Security Grant Program — helps states […]
Carly Haynes/WRAL News A Facebook comment in an online networking group is causing a stir among some of Raleigh’s small business owners. On Dec. 20, an anonymous commenter in a local networking group on Facebook responded to a post by a parent asking for advice regarding her transgender son. “There’s no such thing as a […]
Amy Zhang /The Duke Chronicle Following his inauguration in January, U.S. President Donald Trump brought along a new team of advisers and a playbook for higher education. The administration unleashed a slew of demands on colleges and universities in what has been seen by higher education leaders as an “overreach” on academic freedom by the […]
Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times A defense attorney representing one of the two men charged with attempted murder in the Christmas Eve shots-fired incident at Walmart told the judge Monday morning that his client shot at the floor in an effort to prevent a mass shooting. Christmas shoppers were crowded into the Walmart on Forest […]
Aarik Long/The Waynesville Mountaineer As construction continues its march up Russ Avenue in Waynesville, more than a dozen commercial property owners are still objecting to the right-of-way buyout of their property by the N.C. Department of Transportation. That’s nearly one-fourth of the total 56 parcels that had at least some portion of road frontage taken […]
Port City Daily Several small, infill developments have recently been submitted to the City of Wilmington, totalling 27 units to be built from downtown to the Wrightsville Beach area. All three developments are in the pre-Technical Review Committee stage; only one will need rezoning approval from city council before moving forward to the TRC stage. […]
Dasia Williams/CityView Construction is underway on a $12 million water project designed to deliver drinking water to Gray’s Creek Elementary School and Alderman Road Elementary School—an investment in school safety as Cumberland County Schools continues evaluating long-term facility needs across the district. Both schools are currently outside the public water system and do not have […]
Eliot Duke/State Port Pilot Oak Island and its beach renourishment partners recently offered local media a behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing mobilization of more than one million cubic yards of sand along the shoreline. On Dec. 17, representatives from Moffatt & Nichol, the engineering firm that designed and is overseeing Oak Island’s $40 million beach […]
North Carolina retailers are already wondering how they’ll adjust once the penny disappears from circulation. But their trade group is pointing to U.S. Treasury Department guidance that says this is a problem mainly for cash transactions. Once the penny becomes uncommon, storeowners “will need to round transactions either up or down to the nearest 5 […]
WRAL News A Duke Health nurse charged with committing sexual crimes against patients is not a U.S. citizen, authorities said during a court hearing on Monday. Jomil Tugado, 39, of Durham faces three felony counts each of sexual contact/penetration under the pretext of medical treatment and sex acts by a government or private institution employee. […]
