Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio For more than 30 years, Charlotte and other municipalities have set goals to ensure their contractors hire minority- and women-owned businesses. But a provision in the state budget approved this month ends the ability of local governments to require participation by minority- and women-owned businesses in public contracts, a change that could […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView Efforts by a Gray’s Creek chiropractor to form a town in the southern Cumberland County community ran into doubts and hostility during a community meeting he held last week. So Robb Twaddell is pausing his SimCity dream to incorporate the Town of Gray’s Creek in 2027. But he hasn’t given up on the […]
WSOCTV News A provision in North Carolina’s newly approved state budget has delayed Charlotte Water’s plans to expand water transfers from the Catawba River basin to the Rocky River basin until at least 2028. The budget places a temporary moratorium on new interbasin water transfer approvals while the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill […]
Mebane Rash/Education NC The State Board of Community Colleges met last week and considered in closed session four finalists for president and CEO of the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS). The four candidates were ranked by the search committee and previously met with the executive committee of the Board. Board Chair Tom Looney said, […]
Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press One stop on what Karen Willis Amspacher calls her ghost tour is a cemetery in Davis, an unincorporated Carteret County community of about 250 and once a thriving commercial fishing hub. Near the edge of the Core Sound on the Down East peninsula, the burial ground is one of dozens of […]
JetZero says it and the federal Export-Import Bank have agreed to “explore” a deal that could bring up to $3 billion in financial support to the company’s planned airliner factory in Greensboro. The announcement cautioned that the “letter of interest” it’s signed with Export-Import officials is well short of a funding commitment. Anything on those […]
Financial sustainability is a worry for college sports programs at six of the UNC System’s universities, to the point system officials say they’re going to keep an eye on the issue in fiscal 2026-27. The group includes all five of the schools that are in the NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision — UNC Chapel Hill, NC […]
Will Doran/WRAL News A new search warrant outlined thousands in additional spending by a group at the center of an alleged criminal scheme to buy influence in the North Carolina state legislature, including spending on golfing, at strip clubs, on a vacation property and with the Carolina Panthers. North Carolina investigators have been examining the […]
Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice With a Jan. 1, 2027 deadline approaching for imposing a toll on all North Carolina ferry routes, local officials are voicing opposition to the item in the new state budget. Of the seven North Carolina NCDOT ferry routes that carry cars, four are currently free, including Hatteras/Ocracoke and Knotts Island. There […]
Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog The University of North Carolina-Asheville should not build a stadium atop the wooded land south of its main campus, according to a committee convened to guide the school’s decisions about several properties. In a slate of recommendations published Monday, the Millennial Campus Development Advisory Committee determined that a large-scale athletics facility “would […]
Walker Livingston/Carolina Public Press The last time North Carolina had a state budget, Tropical Storm Helene hadn’t happened yet. But, earlier this month, legislators on both sides of the NC General Assembly agreed on a budget and the governor signed it into law. Roughly $700 million of the $34 billion budget is directed toward Helene […]
Molly Steur/Education NC The North Carolina Department of Justice (NCDOJ) announced that their case against Meta is now set to go to trial on August 18, according to a press release. The case began in 2023 when then-Attorney General Josh Stein joined a bipartisan coalition of 41 other state attorney generals taking legal action against […]
Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise A Canadian producer of amphibious off-road vehicles called Swamp Rider will establish its first U.S. manufacturing facility in High Point, the city announced Monday. The company will create 60 jobs over five years at 1908 Nuggett Road, where it will invest $2.4 million in renovations and equipment. It will lease the […]
Bill Moss/The Hendersonville Lightning Jamie Ager continued his fundraising advantage over U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards as the battle for 11th Congressional District seat enters the final 15 weeks, campaign finance reports for the second quarter show. Ager, the Democratic nominee, raised $1.34 million, spent $292,000 and had $2,184,778 cash on hand at the end of […]
Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz North Carolina Ports plans to use $9.8 million in recently awarded federal funds to construct a new off-terminal access and parking facility, along with a pedestrian bridge and shuttle connections at the Port of Wilmington. The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced $1.73 billion in federal grants for 127 projects, including the one […]
