WSOCTV News Golf lovers in Mecklenburg County won’t be yelling fore over a county commission vote Tuesday night. Commissioners are set to vote on $1.6 million worth of improvements to county golf courses. They will be at Charles T. Myers, Charles Sifford, Harry Jones, Sunset Hills, and Tradition Golf Courses. Monday evening’s forecast with Chief […]
There’s no recent North Carolina precedent, if any, for Senate leader Phil Berger’s apparent GOP primary loss. The modern era of the General Assembly dates from the advent of gubernatorial succession in 1977. Since then, we’ve seen leadership changes in the House and Senate for many reasons, but never because a Senate president pro tem […]
Vietnamese electric-vehicle maker VinFast says it intends to resume construction of its planned North Carolina factory in Chatham County as early as next month, with an eye toward launching production there in 2028. But the company has revised its ambitions, telling local officials that it expects employment in the 1,400-job range. That’s sharply lower than […]
Duke Energy’s proposed merger of its legacy service districts in the Carolinas has picked up support from state Attorney General Jeff Jackson, key environmental groups, the N.C. Public Staff and even some large business customers. Utility officials in recent days have given the N.C. Utilities Commission an agreed settlement with those potential critics that explains […]
Emiilie Megnien & Rio Yamat/The Associated Press Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed Monday as powerful storms swept across the eastern half of the country and a partial government shutdown affecting airport security screeners dragged into a second month. The disruptions come at an already challenging time for air travel, in […]
Greg Childress/NC Newsline Community groups and Walnut Grove residents in Stokes County are suing the county to block a large hyperscale data center complex, known as Project Delta, that they say will harm environmentally sensitive areas along the Dan River corridor, damage sacred cultural sites and threaten the region’s rural character. The lawsuit claims the […]
Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh Wiley Nickel, Wake County’s district attorney in waiting, says he wants to use the next 10 months before he assumes the role of DA to secure more resources for the office. The top priority, he told Axios, is to significantly increase the number of prosecutors working in the state’s largest county by […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online It’s been nearly a month since a video first aired of Wilmington’s mayor invoking residents to voice their opposition to one town’s plans to pull millions of gallons of water daily from the Cape Fear River. “Today this vital resource is under threat from growing water-hungry communities upstream,” Mayor Bill Saffo […]
Ashley Fredde/NC Health News In North Carolina, where a clinician practices can make all the difference for someone seeking maternity care — it’s the birth equivalent of “location, location, location.” Dozens of counties have no local obstetrics care, so families are forced to travel long distances for deliveries. That distance to care for rural patients […]
Katie Myers/The Waynesville Mountaineer A recently-leaked database indicates at least 10 signs in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and 15 along the Blue Ridge Parkway have been flagged for possible removal under a new Trump administration policy. Hundreds of signs and educational displays across the National Park System are being scrutinized under Trump’s executive […]
Annette Weston/WUNC News While the Department of Justice Civil Division announced last week that hundreds of settlements have recently been approved for victims of the toxic water aboard Camp Lejeune, and the associate attorney representing the federal government said he’s proud of the work done to speed up the compensation process, two of the most […]
Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise A recount will be held in the Democratic primary contest for a Guilford County Board of Commissioners seat with the two candidates separated by 34 votes out of 7,298 ballots cast. Lisa McMillan leads Walter Johnson III in the race for District 7. McMillan has 3,666 votes, or 50.2%, […]
Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Shooting ranges, a land-use that for years has bedeviled Henderson County commissioners, Zoning Board of Adjustment members and homeowners near where they’re proposed, could get harder to site in the county. At the behest of Chairman Bill Lapsley, the Board of Commissioners is expected on Monday to create a taskforce to evaluate […]
Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro The closest race in Orange County from March’s primary elections is headed to a recount. During Friday’s canvassing count and meeting of the Board of Elections, the county election officials acknowledged incumbent Earl McKee’s call for a recount in the District 2 Democratic primary for the Orange County Board of Commissioners — […]
It’s possible that legislators will renew a push to change the composition of the state board that licenses dentists, to put the job of appointing members in the hands of North Carolina’s elected leaders instead of the dentists themselves. A joint House-Senate oversight committee is mulling whether to recommend a reorganization bill in the short […]
