Economic Development State sues VinFast, claims breach of deal The state Commerce Department is suing VinFast to take control of the Chatham County land the Vietnamese company had promised...
Economic Development DOT chief concedes communication failures in I-77 dispute State Transportation Secretary Daniel Johnson conceded that his agency could’ve and should’ve done a better job communicating with Charlotte residents...
Economic Development Housing deregulation: If at first you don’t succeed … Rep. Jeff Zenger and his allies are taking another stab at making local governments loosen their restrictions on housing development....
Economic Development House considering data-center restrictions House Republican have proposed a series of restrictions on data-center development, but are coupling them a restriction on the retirement...
Economic Development Stein hires a housing adviser Gov. Josh Stein has hired former Urban Institute Vice President Janneke Ratcliffe to serve as his senior adviser for housing...
Local Former Durham Committee activist indicted A Durham County grand jury has indicted the former head of the political-action arm of the Durham Committee on the...
Economic Development “WWAD” — the power of the Retail Merchants Last week’s piece on the North Carolina lobbyists who’ve registered the largest number of clients brought forth an interesting comment...
Local House panel advances ABC-law changes An ABC-law rewrite that could put pre-mixed cocktails on grocery-store shelves has cleared its first committee, but not before getting...
Economic Development Backtracking on Brunswick It’s looking like legislators are going to walk back a 2019 decision that allowed the Brunswick County Commissioners to farm...
Local Get to know Rep. Julia Greenfield Back in 2023, Julia Greenfield was a retired nurse and political activist. That made her a recruiting target for Mecklenburg...
Economic Development NextEra buying Dominion Energy for $66.8B in stock Florida-based NextEra Energy is buying Virginia’s Dominion Energy in an all-stock deal worth about $66.8 billion at current market prices....
Local Leadership conference: housing, healthcare, energy all dilemmas for NC You’ll have to wait for a fuller account in an upcoming Business North Carolina of Friday’s NC Leadership Conference, but...
Elections Wake Forest commissioner tabbed for Senate seat Democratic Party leaders in Wake and Granville counties have named lawyer and Wake Forest Town Commissioner Haseeb Fatmi as the...
Budget & Taxes State fiscal forecast improves Fiscal forecasters now think the state government will bring in $1.3 billion more in the 2025-27 biennium to support its...
Economic Development Commerce has some questions for employers Gov. Josh Stein’s administration wants to find 50,000 employers willing to work with the state’s job-training programs. The state Commerce...
