Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio People file into the Old Richmond County Courthouse for a public hearing on Amazon’s data center project. A controversial Amazon data center project in Richmond County is getting the green light from state regulators. The North Carolina Division of Air Quality issued two air quality permits: One for the data center’s backup […]
Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog At 8:25 a.m. on Sept. 13, 2024, Noe Serrano Hernandez was put under anesthesia for a routine foot surgery at Mission Hospital. Over the next 51 minutes, the 64-year-old’s vital signs would steadily weaken while the nurse anesthetist supervising his care did not intervene until he suffered a heart attack, according to […]
Chris Stiles/The Robesonian The Lumbee Tribal Council’s Constitution and Ordinance Committee continued discussions on a draft gaming ordinance during its meeting Tuesday at the Tribal headquarters in Pembroke. The ordinance was drafted by Joshua Malcolm, the Tribe’s general counsel, after Tribal Council directed him to explore avenues by which the Tribe could pursue gaming operations […]
Suhas Nittoor/The Daily Tar Heel For months, students in Gary Pielak’s fall 2025 section of Chemistry 430: Introduction to Biological Chemistry thought their final grades, which many felt were unjust and unreasonably curved, were settled. Last week, UNC amended them. The Chemistry Department assembled a Departmental Review Committee after several students in the class submitted […]
April Laissle/WFDD Radio State officials are urging leaders in the Wilkes County town of Ronda to dissolve the town’s charter, citing a worsening financial crisis. In a letter to town officials, state lawmakers outlined a series of financial problems, including repeated overspending on the water system, penalties from the IRS for late payroll tax payments […]
Christine Zhu/NC Newsline U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, a Republican representing western North Carolina, is asking his colleagues to reject his censure after a U.S. House Ethics Committee report accused him of inappropriate conduct towards two young women working in his office. Edwards said in a 22-page letter Thursday that the committee made an “extraordinary analytical […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Before and after the pandemic, Mecklenburg County’s half-cent sales tax for transit was booming. During much of the first Trump administration, transit tax revenues grew by an average rate of 8% a year. Revenues fell during COVID, but they surged again as the economy opened back up. Receipts grew by a whopping […]
Joe Bruno/WSOC News Season 3 of The Hunting Wives will not be shot in North Carolina after the General Assembly made changes to how film incentives are distributed. The announcement is a stunning blow for a state that has been hot for movie and television productions the last few years. “We have had many conversations […]
Lucy Ritchie/WITN East Carolina University and the U.S. Army Reserve signed a 10-year agreement on Monday that could be worth more than $6 million to expand a campus-developed software designed to predict building maintenance issues. The software, called “Piton,” was created by ECU researchers. It combines data from Army buildings and wireless sensors, using machine […]
DJ Simmons/The Charlotte Observer American Airlines is continuing to build Charlotte Douglas International Airport as a global gateway with new, direct service to Barcelona beginning next summer. American will operate daily flights from Charlotte to Barcelona beginning on May 27, the airline recently announced. Tickets will be available for purchase starting Aug. 31 at AA.com […]
The Robesonian Lumbee Tribal Chairman John Lowery on Tuesday announced a new “vision” for health care among the Tribal community, releasing a video message to announce a “foundational concept” for the Lumbee River Health System. Lowery said the following in the message: “In our first eight months as a fully federally recognized nation, this government […]
Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News Wake school board Chairman Tyler Swanson pleaded guilty Wednesday to speeding in a school zone. Swanson was pulled over in January after police said he was going 47 mph on Evans Road next to West Cary Middle School while the speed limit was 25 mph. On Wednesday, Swanson pleaded to a lesser […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press North Carolina’s 100 sheriffs have wide-ranging jobs. As part of their vow to maintain law and order, they oversee county detention facilities, investigate crimes, patrol the community, enforce traffic laws and serve court documents. But once sheriffs get elected, voters rarely remove them from office. Often, they face no serious competition. […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Weather forecasts in areas of North Carolina this summer have played like a needle on a scratched vinyl record, bouncing backward in a repeating loop: dry and hot, dry and hot, dry and hot. Well before high temperatures with heat indexes climbing into triple digits smothered the air hanging over […]
Emily Weaver/The Daily Record There is a cricket shortage in the United States — but not in Dunn. That’s thanks to Bryan Sharpe who never imagined running the state’s largest cricket farm when he bought the old Warren’s Cricket Farm operation for the warehouse space it offered. But, like the man who came before him, […]
