Aarik Long/The Waynesville Mountaineer Haywood County Sheriff Bill Wilke has been ousted from his seat during the Republican primary. Challenger Mark Mease won a commanding 57.8% of the votes. “I am so humbled by the support we’ve got through the community,” Mease said. “The people decided they wanted something different. They wanted somebody that knew […]
Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press North Carolina community colleges and public universities are rapidly approaching a federal deadline to ensure their website and mobile content has sufficient accessibility for people with disabilities. When the US Department of Justice updated Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 2024, the agency created a two-year window for […]
Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily A county commissioner’s stalking reports made against a local media publisher have been dismissed by local and state authorities. Pender County’s Commissioner Jerry Groves filed two reports of stalking on Andy Pettigrew, the owner of the Pender Post — one in July and the other in February. Both have been closed […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A shuttered factory will be put back into use as part of an expansion by its new owner. Davis Furniture last week purchased the former Woodmark Furniture property at 1920 Jarrell St. adjoining its south High Point campus. It plans to begin renovations to the 124,000 square feet of building […]
Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood is poised to earn his fourth term in the role, as he is projected to win Tuesday’s Democratic primary. Blackwood led with 58.41% of the vote in Orange County, compared to Durham County Sheriff’s Office employee and David LaBarre’s 41.59%. The race did not have Republican candidate […]
Republicans’ search for a Willie Horton to use against former Gov. Roy Cooper on the campaign trail in this fall’s U.S. Senate race are now looking to the Duke lacrosse case. The woman whose false rape allegation touched off that now-notorious controversy, Crystal Mangum, left prison on parole on Feb. 27, after serving 12 years […]
A key Republican senator is backing the N.C. Department of Transportation’s decision to stretch out the timeline for finding a potential toll-lane partner for the next stage of the widening of Interstate 77 in Charlotte. The three-month delay will give the agency time to “get additional feedback from the community,” said Sen. Vickie Sawyer, R-Iredell, […]
Democratic leaders aren’t keeping up with the Joneses — or one Jones, specifically — when it comes to fundraising for General Assembly races. House Majority Leader Brenden Jones, R-Columbus, reports that he’s raised $537,080 through mid-February for the 2025-26 election cycle. House Democratic Leader Robert Reives, D-Chatham, has raised $236,407 for the election. Senate Democratic […]
Two of Charlotte’s state senators have added their voices to a coalition that wants Gov. Josh Stein to hit the pause button on the idea of adding more lanes to Interstate 77. Via a letter, Sens. Caleb Theodros and DeAndrea Salvador asked Stein to order the state Department of Transportation to “pause procurement” and see […]
Aetna’s only been administering claims for the State Health Plan for a little over a year, but officials in Treasurer Brad Briner’s office are already looking aheadto perhaps replacing it. The plan’s executive administrator, Thomas Friedman, recently briefedpotential vendors about his expectations going forward. He minced no words, saying he’s not interested in listening to […]
Scott Wong & Frank Thorp V/NBC News During a tense public hearing Tuesday, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign over her handling of the deadly Minneapolis immigration operation. And he blasted her for killing her dog, which she had described in her memoir as “untrainable,” as well as […]
Richard Stradling/The Raleigh News & Observer Gas prices have spiked across North Carolina after the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran over the weekend. The average price of regular gas rose 15 cents overnight to $2.91 a gallon, according to AAA. The average diesel price is up nearly 18 cents, to $3.75 a gallon. Nationwide, the average […]
Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News A statewide group that has focused on improving the health of mothers and babies since 2009 has been winding down its work since it lost state funding last October. Work has been going on behind the scenes, however, to get that funding restored, legislators said last week. “Marty [McCaffrey] and I […]
Ryan Kilgallen & Seyun Park//The Duke Chronicle The Duke community might just be getting a little bigger. The university is close to finalizing an agreement with Durham Technical Community College to guarantee admission into the Pratt School of Engineering for select community college students graduating with an Associate of Engineering degree. Should Duke finalize the […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Charlotte City Council on Monday night cleared the way for the controversial Interstate 77 toll lanes project to move forward, just days after speaking out forcefully against the expansion. Council members reversed course after the North Carolina Department of Transportation agreed to delay by three months its plan to ask contractors […]
