Adam Wagner/NC Newsroom Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said Thursday that he believes public financing is necessary for any Major League Baseball pitch. Here, Berger is shown talking with reporters after the Senate’s session on Aug. 17, 2023. Senate leader Phil Berger on Thursday raised the possibility that the General Assembly’s budget proposal could include […]
Penelope Lopez/WTVD The main gate to Fort Bragg, known as the All-American Gate, is scheduled to shut down for repairs in mid-July, launching a $15.5 million infrastructure project expected to last two years. The long-awaited repairs, funded by Fort Bragg and managed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), will force thousands of soldiers, […]
Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer Waynesville Town Council had something to celebrate last week — the board voted to rebuild a problematic sewer pump station using nothing but state money. The state will pick up the entire tab to build a new sewer pump station known as Little Champion that occasionally spills raw sewage into Richland […]
Monica Casey/WRAL News Durham water efficiency manager James Lin explained why the city implemented its Stage 2 Water Shortage response on Monday, skipping Stage 1 altogether. “When we ran our hydraulic model, we actually triggered stage one and stage two simultaneously,” Lim said. “This drought is hitting us at a strange time of year. It’s […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView Cumberland County agreed to pay $650,000 to the EwingCole architectural firm to settle a billing dispute over the defunct Crown Event Center project in downtown Fayetteville. EwingCole’s federal lawsuit said the county owed $1.32 million plus accruing interest for services rendered. The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners voted 7-0 on Monday to approve […]
Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Alamance County commissioners and school board members are meeting next week to discuss a budget dispute. The Alamance-Burlington School System Board of Education is challenging the county’s funding for the district in next year’s budget. Members unanimously approved a resolution earlier this week stating that the allocation, which falls several million dollars […]
James Farrell, Ely Portillo & Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Dr. Crystal Hill has been placed on leave amid an investigation into how the district is run, the school board said Wednesday. Hill has been on the job for more than three years. The school district and multiple board members either declined to give […]
Alex Littlehales/WRAL News The North Carolina Ethics Commission has dismissed a complaint filed against Insurance Commissioner Michael Causey after he was accused of exchanging ‘inappropriate’ messages with a former department employee. “This morning, Commissioner Causey was informed that the complaint had been dismissed by the Ethics Commission because ‘the facts alleged in the complaint would […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square With three changes to the Senate’s passage along party lines, the Dominique Moody Act advanced from North Carolina’s House of Representatives 113-0 on Wednesday. The upper chamber is next up to consider two committee substitutes and a floor amendment to the bill championed by Sens. Steve Jarvis of Davidson County, Buck […]
Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline A new bill proposed by North Carolina Senate Democrats would put constitutional amendments to legalize recreational and medical cannabis on the ballot. But its odds of getting a vote in the Senate are not high, Republican leadership says. Senate Bill 1072 would put two separate amendments on the ballot in November, asking […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView A moratorium on data center projects is in place for the unincorporated areas of Cumberland County through December 15, after the Board of Commissioners voted 7-0 for the moratorium on Monday. Spectators in the commissioners chamber applauded and cheered the vote, which has been expected since last week. Some held up signs that […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press A wide-ranging North Carolina election bill seemed headed for passage at lightning speed Tuesday morning in Raleigh. But now, it’s stopped in its tracks. Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, told Carolina Public Press that the election bill is still headed to its final destination, but is taking a brief rest stop while […]
Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog One of Asheville’s largest urban forests remains on the chopping block. Now it seems to have been joined by the very idea that put it there. According to a series of documents published by the University of North Carolina-Asheville, the committee tasked with guiding the future of several university properties appears poised […]
Joe Marusak/The Charlotte Observer Grading work is underway for a 50,000-square-foot Lowes Foods grocery store beside a four-lane divided highway under construction in Mooresville near Lake Norman, a town official said Tuesday. Known as the East West Connector, the nearly mile-long road was first proposed decades ago for drivers to escape infuriating bottlenecks when traveling […]
Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Brunswick County is one of four U.S. sites eyed for what could become the world’s first commercial polymetallic nodule refinery. The proposed facility, referred to in a news release as Project Infinity, is the product of a consortium between Australian minerals-processing and mining company Cobalt Blue Holdings Limited and Glomar Minerals LLC, an […]
