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 […]
Julia Horstkamp/The Daily Tar Heel The Protect Campus Survivors Act became law on July 7 after Gov. Josh Stein signed the North Carolina state budget, exempting personally identifiable student disciplinary records related to complaints, investigations and resolutions of alleged violations of disciplinary or conduct policies at public colleges and universities from disclosure under the N.C. […]
Amber Gaudet/The Charlotte Observer As a young man in the 1960s, Tommy Lineberger spent summers on construction sites, doing everything from driving a bulldozer to spackling and mudding walls in the North Carolina sun. Decades later, those early experiences would come back to haunt the Newton resident. Lineberger was diagnosed with mesothelioma, an aggressive form […]
Chantal Allam & David Raynor/The Raleigh News & Observer In North Carolina, you can build a house on almost any patch of land. But the kinds of homes most people can afford — duplexes, townhomes, small apartments and single-family homes on modest lots — are effectively banned. Only about 21% of the state’s residential land […]
Walker Livingston/Carolina Public Press HCA Healthcare could be in noncompliance with the asset purchase agreement for its 2019 acquisition of Mission Health Systems in Western North Carolina for the third year in a row. It’s also been three years since then-Attorney General, now-Gov. Josh Stein filed suit against HCA for violating the purchase agreement, and […]
Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning John Connet, who has led the city of Hendersonville through robust residential development, the recruitment of major manufacturing facilities, the city-county partnership that built the Pardee-Wingate-BRCC health sciences building and cancer center and recovery from Hurricane Helene, is moving on to a new job helping cities across the state improve local government. […]
Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Property owners may be in for a shock next year when the county’s overdue reappraisal values go into effect. Haywood has gone five years (soon to be six) without a property reappraisal. In that time market values have risen at least 44% over the average assessed property values — meaning when […]
Molly Steur/Education NC The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report in July detailing the findings of a study they conducted on how many students with disabilities are spending “much of their day” — at least 40% — in a general education classroom setting. Their research found that the number increased by 25% […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The Northside Food Co-op is no longer seeking to set up shop at 10th and Post streets, marking the end of the grocery store vision for the property once backed by two governments and the New Hanover Community Endowment. Dorian Cromartie, board chair of the co-op, informed the New Hanover County […]
Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice As Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Southern Shores and Ducks prepare for their 2027 beach nourishment projects, monitoring of the beaches by Coastal Protection Engineering (CEP) shows that the last such project—in 2022—has held up surprisingly well. Based on observations provided to Duck, Southern Shores and Kitty Hawk, CPE Senior Project […]
Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio State regulators hosted a public hearing for Amazon’s proposed large data center project in Richmond County on Thursday. The state Division of Air Quality had requested public feedback on two air quality permits that would allow Amazon and Duke Energy to operate approximately 650 diesel generators to provide emergency power at the […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square Two elected executive officers for North Carolina, and a member of the Stein administration, oppose the proposed settlement negotiated they say “behind our backs” by the EPA and Chemours. First-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, first-term Democratic Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Secretary Reid Wilson of the Division of Environmental Quality made […]
Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News Court proceedings across North Carolina could be disrupted beginning Friday as certified court interpreters plan a statewide work stoppage. The action comes after additional funding to increase contract pay was left out of the new state budget, according to the North Carolina Interpreter Advocacy Committee. The group announced Wednesday that interpreters will […]
Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News More than 30 years after North Carolina became one of the first states to establish an Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, state lawmakers have eliminated the standalone office dedicated to reducing gaps in health outcomes. A provision on page 250 of the state’s new 600-plus page budget bill, signed […]
Felicia Sonmez/BPR News North Carolina Department of Transportation Secretary Daniel Johnson visited Chimney Rock Thursday for an update on road repairs nearly two years after Hurricane Helene. Johnson said more than 99% of the roads Helene closed have reopened thanks to the efforts of NCDOT staff. But several major projects remain underway in the western […]
