North Carolina’s Labor Department has active safety “partnership” deals in place with the contractors spearheading work on four of the state’s highest-profile construction projects. It recently touted the signing of an agreement with Barnhill Building Group covering the company’s work on The Creamery, a 37-floor mixed use tower that’s going up on Glenwood Avenue in […]
Unsustainable arrival rates, increasing traffic volumes and airline scheduling practices were all contributing factors to 2025’s mid-air collision at Reagan National Airport in Washington, federal safety inspectors say. The collision between a commuter jet and a U.S. Army helicopter killed 67 people, among them the helicopter’s Durham-native pilot and the jet’s Charlotte-based flight crew. Tuesday’s […]
Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online Dominion Energy’s 2.6-gigawatt offshore wind project based in Hampton Roads, Virginia, which was ordered by the Trump administration to stop work right before Christmas, has resumed the project and is now on track for completion by early 2027. But the 26-day shutdown of Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, also known as CVOW, […]
Haylee Kennedy/WNCN Some Wake County parents are raising concerns about the company that takes their children’s school photos after a connection was made in the newly unsealed Jefferey Epstein files. Rene Barton’s son has picture day tomorrow; however, he will not be participating with the rest of his class. “What I’m doing personally as a […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press No, it’s not a scam. The North Carolina State Board of Elections sent letters to 241,000 voters in early February as part of a new effort to improve voter roll accuracy. The letters requested certain voters’ birthdays, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers. Providing […]
Jaclyn Diaz & Cheryl Corley/NPR The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and in the 1980s reshaped Democratic politics with two galvanizing presidential campaigns, died Tuesday at the age of 84. “Our father was a servant leader — not only to […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The City of Wilmington’s initiative to create a park out of 25 acres on Greenville Loop Road narrowly received approval from purchasing partner New Hanover County on Monday. Some commissioners raised concerns over transparency in the sale process. The county commissioners ultimately voted 3-2, with Democrats Rob Zapple and Stephanie Walker […]
Louis Van Boxel-Woolf/Barron’s German agrichemical giant Bayer said Tuesday its subsidiary Monsanto had proposed a class settlement of up to $7.25 billion to settle claims that the Roundup weedkiller causes blood cancer, potentially drawing a line under years of costly litigation. Under the proposed agreement, Monsanto would make a series of declining annual payments for […]
Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer This winter’s brutal temperatures have taken a toll on utility bills across the county. As temperatures dropped, heaters kicked on and stayed on — driving up energy usage and costs. “The last month has been cold, and many have said their heaters haven’t turned off in days,” said Si Simmons, program […]
Emma Cooke/WCHL Chapelboro Some Chatham County residents are speaking out against Pittsboro’s use of Flock license-plate cameras, citing privacy concerns. The surveillance technology by Flock Safety largely aims to help local police identify suspects and locate missing persons by taking still images of a vehicle’s “distinguishing features,” including the license plate. Although it has been […]
Sarah Honosky/Asheville Citizen Times At a Feb. 13 candidate forum hosted by a local business group, the three candidates for Buncombe County District Attorney discussed violent crime, homelessness, case backlogs, relationships with law enforcement and jail capacity — each making their case to lead the office. All are Democrats, with no Republican challengers in the […]
Juliet Loffredo/The Daily Tar Heel After Chancellor Lee Roberts announced on Jan. 21 that UNC would move forward with the development of Carolina North, a satellite campus 2 miles off of UNC’s main campus, some community members have raised concerns about the construction project’s potential impacts on the Carolina North Forest. The Carolina North Forest […]
Data centers account for about 80% of the additional demand Duke Energy is expecting to come its way because of economic-development drives in the Carolinas That’s the word from Gov. Josh Stein’s Energy Policy Task Force, and part of the reason it’s advocating that policymakers make sure data centers pay their fair share for the […]
The Rev. Rodney Sadler has raised more than twice as much money for his state House party primary as District 106 incumbent Rep. Carla Cunningham. Year-end finance reports to the State Board of Elections show that Sadlerpulled in just under $121,820. Cunningham raised $57,449, but started the race with a cushion thanks to the money […]
Two days before the Feb. 6 registration deadline, Natalie Jewett-Dutt went online and changed her party affiliation from Democrat to unaffiliated. She is one of 168 Democrats in Dare County who have changed their registration to unaffiliated since May, 2025, according to Dare County Board of Elections data. Another 52 Democrats have switched their affiliation […]
