James Farrell/WFAE Radio In May, the Gaston County Commissioners approved the Gaston County Schools budget. It kept funding flat from last year – and at about $54 million in operating costs, fell below the district’s ask of around $60.4 million. It capped off weeks of tensions around school funding – including the county’s emergency infusion […]
Bill Kirby Jr./CityView Hope Mills soon will be looking for a new town manager to replace Chancer McLaughlin. “The consensus of this board by a three to two vote is the town manager’s contract will not be renewed in March 2027,” Mayor Jessie Bellflowers said after a closed session during the June 22 meeting of […]
Eric Medlin/Coastal Review Online The term “skyscraper” often evokes a Northern metropolis full of towering masses of steel, thousands of panes of glass, and the occasional King Kong sighting. In reality, a skyscraper is just a multistory building with a frame made of steel instead of a load-bearing mass of wood, brick or stone. With […]
Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog Beginning Tuesday, Mission Hospital will no longer require nurses to have a four-year Bachelor of Science Nursing degree or obtain one within five years of being hired. Instead, nurses will be required only to have a two-year Associate Degree in Nursing. “Our commitment to nursing excellence remains unchanged,” Ruth Kain, Mission Hospital’s […]
Jennifer Fernandez/Education NC & NC Health News At North Carolina schools that provide behavioral health care remotely, teachers and school staff say they’re seeing an impact on students’ behavioral challenges. The new data comes from initial responses to a survey by researchers at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC Chapel […]
Sean Bell/Yahoo Finance The American grocery market looks set for a major development of consolidation as the oldest grocery chain in the U.S., Kroger Co., confirmed in an official press release that it will acquire the family-owned grocery chain Giant Eagle for $1.65 billion. Unanimously approved by Kroger’s board of directors, this purchase would bring […]
Megan Cloherty/WRAL News A perfect storm of challenges in downtown Apex has business owners considering closing. Their landlords are raising rent, passing on a new increase in city property taxes and rising insurance rates. Coupled with an on-going downtown construction project causing sales losses that is expected to extend through next year, many business owners […]
Justin Moore/WNCN State lawmakers have granted the City of Fayetteville and Cumberland County nine more days to reach an agreement on a long-debated plan to merge their emergency communications systems. The extension comes as city and county leaders continue negotiations over the future of a joint 911 call center, a dispute that has stretched on […]
Reyna Drake/WUNC News Last week, two earthquakes devastated Venezuela – happening less than a minute apart and both having a magnitude higher than seven. So far, more than 1,700 people have died, and search and rescue efforts are underway for the thousands that are missing. Local and national groups are rallying to send aid to […]
Joe Marusak/The Charlotte Observer A luxury townhome community will soon rise on a Lake Norman peninsula in the eastern Lincoln County community of Denver, its listing agent with Cornelius-based lvester Jackson Christie’s International Real Estate said Tuesday. The Cape Lake Norman will include 27 “sleek minimalist-style” homes resembling those in the Florida coastal resort community […]
Frank Daniels IV/The Southern Pines Pilot Moore County is one step closer to commercial air service after the county Tourism Development Authority board approved $300,000 toward a minimum revenue guarantee fund meant to incentivize service by a legacy passenger air carrier. In May, the Board of Commissioners gave the go-ahead for the TDA to appropriate […]
Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online Despite last week’s abysmal report from the state auditor of the funding prospects for the long-planned Mid-Currituck Bridge, the proposed project connecting the Currituck County mainland to its northern Outer Banks beaches will remain officially alive in the state transportation plan, at least for the time being. The auditor’s Rapid Response […]
Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer Waynesville taxpayers will not see a property tax increase this year. Following weeks of combing over the budget to come up with more than half a million dollars in cuts, town council voted on a budget for the coming fiscal year with no new property taxes. Councilmember Anthony Sutton noted that […]
