Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Duke Energy says it needs to add a lot of additional power generation to its energy portfolio in the coming years to meet future demand driven by North Carolina’s population growth and success in attracting new businesses. A Wilmington-based company could help the utility giant meet that goal. Duke is exploring […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A North Carolina court has ruled that the state’s lead environmental agency has the authority to set 1,4-dioxane discharge limits for public wastewater utilities. The ruling reverses a 2024 administrative law judge’s determination that the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality did not follow the proper process when it established discharge […]
Port City Daily The Pender County Board of Education will be looking into strengthening district policies related to nonprofit organizations in the wake of the arrest of Topsail Athletic Booster’s club treasurer on Wednesday. The board voted in a special meeting last week to begin reviewing Pender County Schools’ policy 5010 on parent organizations. “Parent […]
WRAL News The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles announced a new batch of self-service kiosks on Monday across grocery stores in Raleigh, Apex, Wake Forest and Fayetteville. NCDMV commissioner Paul Tine announced 10 new locations, bringing the state to a total of 20 kiosks across three counties — Wake, Cumberland and Mecklenburg — in […]
Ashley Fredde/NC Health News Sunlight pours through stained glass windows onto rows of wooden pews that, on occasion, still hold hymnals. But Milner Memorial Presbyterian Church, where those same windows once illuminated weekly worship, is gone. In its place stands Milner Commons, an affordable housing complex for older adults that is designed to preserve pieces […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The High Point City Council Thursday gave its blessing to continue plans for a potential new City Hall facility despite concerns it might entail a tax increase. During its strategic planning retreat at City Lake Park, the council discussed whether a $70 million project that would be constructed from the […]
Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Thermo Fisher Scientific recently announced a collaboration between its clinical research division, PPD, and data collection platform Datavant. The “strategic data collaboration” aims to make it easier for pharmaceutical and biotech companies to connect real-world data with clinical research, according to a news release issued this week by Thermo Fisher. PPD, which was […]
Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer Shining Rock Classical Academy Charter School will likely close its high school at the end of this school year due to unsustainable enrollment numbers in grades 9-12. The high school, with only 103 students, has an annual operating deficit of $200,000 that is draining resources from Shining Rock’s elementary and middle […]
Elisabeth Strillacci/ Salisbury Post Joshua Harrington, a candidate for Rowan County commissioner, has often discussed his military background and time in the Marine Corps on his social media pages and in his podcasts. He has shared details of harrowing “abuse” by drill instructors at Parris Island in South Carolina in boot camp, and listed his […]
Saying the issue’s too much a political matter, a Business Court judge has dismissed Carrboro’s climate-change lawsuit against Duke Energy. Judge Mark Davis — a former state Supreme Court justice returned to the bench in 2021 by former Gov. Roy Cooper — said a jury could only resort to “utter conjecture” to reach a verdict […]
Former Duke Energy and Strata Clean Energy engineer John Gajda is joining the N.C. Utilities Commission. Gov. Josh Stein announced on Friday that’d he’d picked Gajda for the slot on the commission that opened up when lawyer and former chair Karen Kemeraitstepped down. Given recent legislatively dictated changes to his authority in the matter, the […]
In December, the Lumbee Tribe’s for-profit arm paid a combined $6.8 million for two tracts of land alongside Interstate 95, where a Native American-owned casino may someday emerge. That was $3.6 million more than the combined properties’ sale price a few days earlier. Deeds recorded with Robeson County show that Western Agricultural Holdings, a firm […]
State Attorney General Jeff Jackson says North Carolina’s apartment-rent price-fixing lawsuit against RealPage continues, even though the federal government is moving to settle its end of the case. “If I can’t get a fair deal from them, I’ll just take it to trial and let a jury decide,” Jackson said in a Thursday Instagram post […]
State Highway Patrol pay is at the bottom of the barrel nationally and isn’t even all that competitive with other North Carolina law-enforcement agencies, Highway Patrol Col. Freddy Johnson says. As of fall 2025, North Carolina’s starting pay for troopers ($55,000) ranked 49th out of the 50 states and its top-end pay for troopers ($80,252) […]
Catherine Muccigrosso/The Charlotte Observer Lowe’s home improvement chain, one of the Charlotte region’s largest employers, has just cut hundreds of jobs. “We have made the difficult decision to reduce approximately 600 corporate and support roles,” the Mooresville-based home improvement chain confirmed Friday. That’s less than 1% of its total workforce. Lowe’s employees took to social […]
