Top 10 8. Leaders hail ‘promising’ Haw Creek project revisions ahead of Asheville City Council vote The Asheville City Council plans to vote next month on a housing development in East Asheville’s Haw Creek neighborhood, as...
Top 10 9. SMPO prioritizes projects despite no regional funds There’s no money right now to do anything about them, but transportation planning representatives for southern Moore County this week...
Top 10 10. Cape Fear Business Alliance supports bill making PFAS manufacturers liable for cleanup costs, Wilmington Chamber won’t comment The Cape Fear Business Alliance, an organization of small businesses, voiced their support for renewed legislative efforts to hold PFAS...
Top 10 1. Where N.C. mortgage holders are underwater on their home loans While most U.S. homeowners are sitting on a mountain of home equity after years of rising house prices, a number...
Top 10 2. NC investigators probe State Treasurer Dale Folwell over use of state vehicles State Treasurer Dale Folwell, a longtime Republican politician who refers to himself as the “keeper of the public purse,” is...
Top 10 3. Toyota’s chairman sees shareholder backing slide to 72% amid governance concerns Shareholder backing for Toyota (7203.T), opens new tab Chairman Akio Toyoda slid for a second straight year, results from its...
Top 10 4. NC House budget would make quality standards optional for child care centers The North Carolina House of Representatives released a budget proposal June 17 for the fiscal year that begins July 1...
Top 10 5. House bill would let a politically connected charter school open without state review A politically connected board has applied to open a charter school in Iredell-Statesville School’s old Mt. Mourne School in Mooresville....
Top 10 6. Fitch Ratings downgrades Wilmington’s municipal bonds A prominent financial research firm downshifted the credit rating for Wilmington’s municipal bonds, citing a new evaluation method and the...
Top 10 7. Novant to sell, leaseback four Wilmington-area properties in statewide effort Novant Health closed on the sale of 16 of its North Carolina properties earlier this month, a transaction that included...
Top 10 8. Congress just passed the biggest clean-energy bill since Biden’s climate law The Senate voted nearly unanimously Tuesday evening to pass major legislation designed to reverse the American nuclear industry’s decades-long decline...
Top 10 9. Unloaded weapons don’t violate North Carolina safe gun storage law, appeals court says An appeals court threw out convictions Tuesday against a North Carolina woman who was charged after a teenager fatally shot...
Top 10 10. ‘I just need answers now’: Families wait for closure as high caseloads, vacancies plague NC medical examiner’s office High caseloads and limited staff at the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner are leading to families waiting for...
Top 10 1. North Carolina House seeks higher worker pay, child care and voucher money in budget bill North Carolina teachers and state employees would receive higher salary bumps than are currently planned, while child care providers could...
Top 10 2. Scoop: N.C. lawmaker looks to block proposed west Raleigh tax Raleigh City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to levy an additional tax on a portion of west Raleigh that’s...
