State Department of Transportation officials have pulled the plug on a “community engagement center” in Charlotte they opened in late March to answer questions about the Interstate 77 widening project. The move comes because project’s dead following this week’s vote by the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization to rescind its support for it, DOT said […]
The N.C. Supreme Court has rejected challenges from manufacturers, electric co-ops and Attorney General Jeff Jackson to Duke Energy’s 2023-25 rate-increase packages. Justice Trey Allen’s opinion held that held the N.C. Utilities Commission on all of the key issues had the discretion to act as it did in setting rates for Duke’s Progress and Carolinas […]
Lobbyist and former state Rep. Jason Saine, R-Lincoln, has left The Southern Group and is in the process of launching his own firm. Saine parted ways with Florida-based Southern Group on May 11 and on May 20 registered Saine Strategies Inc. as a new business with Secretary of State Elaine Marshall’s office. “Over the next […]
Amy McCraw/Henndersonville Lightning A Henderson County jury likely made state history when it returned a $101 million verdict against the Hajoca Corp. last week, attorneys representing plaintiffs in the case said in interviews with the Lightning. The lawsuit, which involved a wall that collapsed on four construction workers at the plumbing supply business on Spartanburg […]
Deana Harley/WNCN Court documents are shedding light on the legal battle that led up to a woman allegedly leaving the Wake County Courthouse on Friday, getting a gun, and shooting two attorneys. Gwendolyn White is due in court on Tuesday, charged with attempted murder. It all dates back to 2021, when court records show White […]
Felicia Sonmez/BPR News There’s something similar to a small city of construction workers and heavy machinery along Interstate 40 near the Tennessee border. It’s part of a $2 billion effort to repair the highway, which was partially washed into the Pigeon River by Hurricane Helene. North Carolina Department of Transportation officials are hoping the project […]
Ferrel Guillory/Education NC Rachel Canter wants North Carolina legislators and education policymakers to know that Mississippi’s two-decade vault to the top in fourth grade test scores did not result solely from a literacy initiative with phonics at its core. “Our story is bigger than literacy,’’ she said Monday in a video conference with the new […]
Bradley George/WUNC News Benson town manager Dane Rideout has resigned, as the Johnston County town continues to struggle with a financial crisis. Mayor Max Raynor read Rideout’s resignation letter during a town commission meeting Thursday night. “It has become clear that I am unable to overcome institutional resistance to the difficult but necessary changes required […]
Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Bill Franklin marched up to the sand crossover pushed up and over the rusty-colored pipe carrying sand from Carolina Beach Inlet to near the southern end of Kure Beach and paused. “It’s nice to see the wide beach back,” said the Kentucky tourist and frequent visitor to Pleasure Island. “We needed […]
Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer Waynesville town council rejected a property tax increase for the coming year, and instead directed each department to find cuts to make up the difference. Council members were largely mum last week when presented with a draft budget calling for a 2 cent property tax hike. They then dropped a bombshell […]
David Beasley/The Center Square Two years ago, 13 North Carolina students suffered cardiac arrest while at school, one of whom died. Now, two state lawmakers want to ensure that all public schools – roughly 2,500 in total – stock defibrillators. The legislation, which has already passed the House, was sponsored by State Rep. Wyatt Gable, […]
9. Dare Ed Board to consider banning e-bike use on school property Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice At their meeting on Tuesday, May 26, the Policy Review Committee of Dare County Board of Education will review a proposal for a new policy that would ban the operation of e-bikes on school property. The review comes at […]
Lorelei Roberts/Watauga Democrat Watauga County’s Cattlemen’s Association members spent a recent Saturday helping a cattle farmer in his 80s rebuild his fence that was destroyed in Hurricane Helene. “Every community member just wants to make sure that their community is taken care of and try to help where they can,” Watauga County Extension Agent Kendra […]
The state Commerce Department is suing VinFast to take control of the Chatham County land the Vietnamese company had promised would become the site of an automobile factory. Filed on Thursday, the company contends that work has stalled and it’s now impossible for the company to have a factory up and running there this year, […]
State Transportation Secretary Daniel Johnson conceded that his agency could’ve and should’ve done a better job communicating with Charlotte residents about the plan to add more toll lanes to Interstate 77. Along the way, “we had a lot of robust engagement on the development of the project with with local officials and with the” local […]
