Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Prominent civil rights leader William Barber II spoke against Charlotte’s proposed 1-cent tax for roads and transit from the pulpit Sunday, saying it would hurt low-income residents who have been negatively impacted by recent property tax increases. Barber became famous last decade leading the Moral Monday movement...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee continued her series of town halls in North Carolina’s fourth congressional last week by holding an event at Carrboro’s Drakeford Library Complex. The Aug. 5 event, which was not widely publicized, drew dozens of attendees and featured the two-term Democrat answering questions on...

Nick Bentley/WNCN Wawa has chosen North Carolina as the place for its first ever travel center, and hopes to invest more than $675 million in the state. According to a press release from Wawa, the travel center will be built in Hope Mills and a special grand opening is planned...

Scott Bolejack/Johnstonian News A development firm proposes to plant a 40-foot landscape buffer between its shopping center on Clayton Boulevard and neighboring single-family homes. But those neighbors told the Clayton Planning Board on July 28 that a previous Town Council had promised them a 125-foot “no development” buffer along their...

Jesse Deal/The Stanly News & Press     A nonprofit water utility corporation based in Richfield has been awarded nearly $5 million in state funding for a major infrastructure upgrade. Gov. Josh Stein and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) recently announced that the Pfeiffer–North Stanly Water Association will receive...

Robert Sullivan/The Salisbury Post     The Salisbury City Council voted to sell the Plaza Building to the Wallace Family on Tuesday with no material changes to the development agreement. The Wallace Family, who created the company Wallace Building Salisbury in July to serve as the purchasing entity, will buy the building...

Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio Officials from the N.C. Department of Labor discovered an illegal mine earlier this year when federal officials asked them to provide safety training at the Mitchell County site. A Department of Labor official realized that the mine had “multiple irregularities,” according to a news release from the...

Brianna Sacks & Maeve Reston/The Washington Post The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million in preapproved funds intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure still in disrepair almost a year after Helene hit the region, according to documents obtained...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press HCA Healthcare kept watchdogs waiting for months for information that would determine whether the company was in compliance with the state-mandated terms of its purchase agreement for Asheville-based Mission Health. When the company relented, it kept control over what could be made public about the...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times In a sign of things to come – and a sign of how things have been in the last decade – the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, on Thursday, Aug. 7, overturned a previous denial by the county’s Planning Board and gave the green light to...

Business North Carolina Raleigh businessman Art Pope is a strong supporter of Donald Trump who isn’t afraid to express his disagreements with the president. That makes him a rarity among Republicans, but Pope’s wealth and self-confidence may insulate him from pressures felt by others who disagree with Trump’s trade policies....

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio The Division of Motor Vehicles is using interns to help manage long lines at driver’s license offices. New DMV Commissioner Paul Tine told the State Board of Transportation this week that one of the agency’s challenges is that if you show up without the documents you need,...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The Waynesville Town Council will remove two members from the town’s Zoning Board of Adjustment after an investigation by The Smoky Mountain News last month revealed they’d each been appointed to a fourth term in violation of the town’s own term limits policy. According to the...

WRAL News The owner of several bars and clubs in Raleigh’s Glenwood South has won a lawsuit against the city for its nightlife regulations. Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Holcombe III’s ruling called the city of Raleigh’s ordinance that requires businesses to get a nightlife permit and pay fees...

Greg Childress/NC Newsline The Wilmington City Council  has pledged to continue the work of a committee devoted to workforce housing issues despite losing New Hanover County as partner. The New Hanover County Commissioners voted 3-2 last month to walk away from the Workforce Housing Advisory Committee, citing city budgets cuts...