Julian Berger/WFAE Radio U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is buying warehouses across the U.S. to turn them into detention centers, and is reportedly looking at a warehouse in Concord. According to the New York Times, ICE is seeking to purchase a 414,000 square foot Concord warehouse, which will hold 1,500 beds for detainees. ICE has […]
WRAL News The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation will review how Cary police handled a drug investigation where evidence shows the car of the then-town manager was present. The Wake County District Attorney’s Office asked the SBI to review documents about a 2016 incident at the Harrison Motel in Cary. An SBI spokesperson said […]
Dasia Williams/CityView Concerned parents, educators, and community leaders filled Cliffdale Community Church on Thursday for a town hall focused on one issue: Cumberland County Schools’ decision to end year-round education at E.E. Miller Elementary. The gathering—organized by families and community advocates—came in response to a February 9 Cumberland County Board of Education vote approving the […]
Federal officials want to send $34 million Duke Energy’s way to help pay for upgrades to the gas-and-coal-fired Belews Creek Steam Station in Stokes County — a facility Duke intends to retire at the end of 2039. The prospective taxpayer subsidy would cover about a third of the project cost, the U.S. Department of Energy […]
House Speaker Destin Hall has raised $1.2 million so far in the 2025-26 election cycle, his most recent report to the State Board of Elections says. His campaign’s fundraising includes $296,000 in PAC money. Max-level, $6,800 PAC donors in the second half of 2025 include groups representing the Cherokee and Catawba Indians, the state’s home […]
Asheville will host some of the preparatory meetings for the annual G20 summit in August and early September, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says. The sessions will begin on Aug. 29 and 30 with meetings between the top deputies of each participating country’s finance ministry and central bank. The actual finance ministers and central-bank governors […]
Evan Halper/The Washington Post The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for artificial intelligence. Dozens of airplane-hangar-size warehouses packed with computing hardware will consume more power than all of […]
Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice On Tuesday, Feb. 17, the North Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments in the long-running legal battle between Currituck County and the Corolla Civic Association (CCA) over how the county spends occupancy tax money. The CCA plaintiffs contend that the county has improperly used those funds to pay for police, fire protection, […]
Renee Spencer/Wilmington StarNews After a report showed a 17-year gap in life expectancy rates between two Wilmington neighborhoods, local officials have expressed concern about the disparity. While some say they are not surprised, others question the data. The data comes from the U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP) — a partnership between the National […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online More people moved to North Carolina last year from different parts of the country than any other state in the nation. North Carolina’s population grew by almost 150,000 people, trailing behind only Texas and Florida, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released last month. As political leaders grapple with the demands […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press A jury trial for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ prosecution of former Swain County sheriff Curtis Cochran won’t be scheduled until at least this summer, according to the latest tribal court filings. Cochran, 73, had been set to appear in tribal court in Cherokee on Tuesday, Feb. 17. However, the […]
Nathaniel Puente/WCNC Multiple gunshots struck the home of a Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners candidate Monday night while he and his family were inside, the candidate said Tuesday. Aaron Marin, a Republican running for the District 1 seat, said in a social media post that shots were “intentionally directed only at our house” while he […]
Anne Blythe/NC Health News When Lee Zeldin, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced almost 10 months ago that the federal regulator would reevaluate research on potential health risks of fluoride in drinking water, he said “sound science” would be used to “advance our mission of protecting human and health and the environment.” Now, […]
Port City Daily City officials and the local water authority are asking locals to tell the state “no” when it comes to one North Carolina town’s request to purchase water daily from the Cape Fear River to help supply the needs of its rapidly growing municipality. The Fuquay-Varina Interbasin Transfer would permanently remove 6.17 million […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The city of High Point’s consideration of a new downtown service district tax drew more opposition and questions than support, according to surveys of businesses within the proposed boundaries. While respondents expressed satisfaction with current city levels of service, there was a lack of clarity about what the special tax […]
