Savanna Tenenoff/Wilmington StarNews As the Holden Beach Board of Commissioners continue to take action on big ticket projects, residents are voicing concern through a civil case against the town. A civil summons was filed against the town of Holden Beach on Jan. 30, 2025, by Lisa Ragland. The case requests...

David Malakoff/Science  In a Friday night move that quickly drew howls of protest from the U.S. biomedical research community, President Donald Trump’s administration today announced it is immediately reducing by at least half the so-called indirect cost payments that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) makes to universities, hospitals, and...

Travis Loller/The Associated Press  After 24 years of guiding whitewater trips on the Nolichucky River Gorge for other companies, Patrick Mannion finally received a permit last year to operate his own outfitter business. But following the devastation of Hurricane Helene, he doesn’t know if Osprey Whitewater will be around for...

Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Midway, about 15 minutes south of Winston-Salem, wasn’t even a town for most of its history. The Davidson County community became a municipality in 2006 in an effort to avoid getting annexed into the nearby city. Local leaders didn’t want to pay higher city property taxes, and...

Chris Isidore/CNN  North Carolina is a state that is generally hostile to unions. Amazon is a company that is, historically, extremely hostile to unions. Now an upstart union is attempting to represent more than 4,000 Amazon workers at one of the online retailer’s facilities there. More than 100 workers on...

Hannah Vinueza McClellan/EducationNC During a year in which lawmakers are saying there may not be funding for raises, the State Health Plan’s Board of Trustees took the first step on Friday to set premiums for active members based on a salary scale. Increases in premiums are likely for all educators,...

Shea Carver/Port City Daily While progress has been made to the workforce housing market in Wilmington in recent years, there is still more to do. That was the message from Tom Gale, the chair of the city and county Workforce Housing Advisory Committee — a six-member board founded in 2019....

April Laissle/WFDD Radio Forsyth County homeowners received notices in the mail this week about big increases in their property valuations. But officials say the changes may not translate to significantly higher tax bills. Nearly all Forsyth County properties have increased in appraised value since the last assessment in 2021. On...

Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Maggie Valley aldermen are perplexed by N.C. House Rep. Mark Pless’ request to speak at the next town board meeting — lamenting what they describe as Pless’ refusal to communicate with the mayor and most of the board for the past two years. Alderman John Hinton...

Chandler Inions/The Salisbury Post     Local Government Commission (LGC) members voted to approve a financing requests from Kannapolis to obtain N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) repayable loans to conduct lead service line inspections and inventories. The surveys are required under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and DEQ regulations. The intent of...

Evey Weisblat/CityView Walking around downtown Fayetteville, you’ll notice pockets of commercial activity, including bustling ground-floor shops and restaurants. But you’ll also see many empty storefronts and buildings with a lot of character but no one to occupy them, such as the vacant Prince Charles Hotel building. While downtown Fayetteville has...

Kathy N. Ross/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer It seems Haywood’s Soil and Water and Resource Conservation agencies have figured out a way around a bureaucratic problem — how to use money to clean up from Tropical Storm Fred without using it to clean up Hurricane Helene. With the delays in permitting and...

John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog While nearly all the Helene-damaged bridges in Buncombe County have been temporarily repaired, along with hundreds of roadbed washouts, permanent repairs on many of these sites may take years, cost millions of dollars and cause inconveniences in some cases for drivers. The tropical storm, which hit the...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise High Point Market Authority leaders say they’re hopeful that potential new U.S. tariffs won’t have a major impact on the spring trade show. During its meeting Wednesday, the organization’s board briefly discussed the 25% tax on imports from Canada and Mexico that President Donald Trump...

Business North Carolina Charlotte-based Honeywell plans to separate into three publicly listed companies, the industrial conglomerate announced Thursday. It will spin off its Automation and Aerospace Technologies, along with the previously announced plan to spin Advanced Materials. The separation is intended to be completed in the second half of 2026...