North Carolina’s race for state schools superintendent is once again in the national spotlight after an unearthed social media video by Republican candidate Michele Morrow called for a military intervention to keep former President Donald Trump in office in 2021. In interviews with WRAL News on Tuesday Morrow denied calling...

The Charlotte City Council is scheduled to vote Sept. 9 on buying the O Line freight rail tracks from Norfolk-Southern — a major step towards building the long-delayed Red Line commuter train to Lake Norman communities. Ed McKinney, who is the city’s point person for the transportation plan, said the...

Environmental issues are a core theme of Sen. Michael Lee’s (R-New Hanover) 2024 reelection campaign. Port City Daily reached out to the senator’s office multiple times in the last week to ask for his response to environmentalists’ recent criticisms of his PFAS record; his team responded with a list of...

Toward the end of the Red Surge Convoy gathering, N.C. Rep. Mark Pless, R-Haywood, took the stage to accept blame for Trump losing the 2020 election, criticize the local press and call Republicans just plain “cheap.” Republicans need to overcome the complacency that led to Donald Trump losing the 2020...

A split commissioners board on Monday heeded the public’s increasingly vocal demands to slow down the process of selecting a new concessioner to operate the town docks. Beaufort commissioners voted 3-2, with commissioners Charles “Bucky” Oliver and Dr. John LoPiccolo opposed, to terminate all discussions and rescind a letter of...

The Durham board of education postponed an expected vote on plans for a new Durham School of the Arts on Thursday. Still, board members appear committed to plans for the new school. While some board members raised questions regarding plans to build a new school rather than renovate the current...

Top business leaders, high-ranking public officials and economic development leaders gathered at the annual Wyndham Champions Breakfast this morning to celebrate the record-breaking economic momentum in the Carolina Core and the collaborations that make it possible. While significant progress at the megasites was a key theme of the event, leaders...

Realtors across the US are bracing for a seismic shift in the way they do business. Starting August 17, new rules will roll out that overhaul the way Realtors get paid to help people buy and sell their homes. The changes, which are part of a $418 million settlement announced...

Charlotte’s proposal for a one-cent sales tax expansion would fund more trains, greenways and buses, but 40% of the total would be reserved for roads. The town of Matthews appears to be dead-set against Charlotte’s proposed transportation and transit plan, and commissioners voted unanimously Monday night to oppose designs that...

Prominent Wake Democrats and the Wake County chapter of the North Carolina Democratic Party’s Jewish caucus are urging the larger county party not to make endorsements in this year’s nonpartisan Raleigh City Council races. All city council seats and the mayor’s seat are up for election in November, and in...

A pair of dueling lawsuits between the city of Sanford and a developer were recently settled with the city agreeing to pay Nick Jordan $60,000 over the nearly 5-acre Singer property at 171 N. First St. According to a press release from Friday, Aug. 9, the city came to an...

North Carolina has confirmed four storm-related fatalities from Tropical Storm Debby, Justin Graney, the communications chief for North Carolina Emergency Management told Carolina Public Press on Monday morning. The deaths resulted from a tornado in Wilson County, a falling tree in Rockingham County, a motor vehicle collision in Wake County...

In response to a new policy passed in May by the UNC system Board of Governors (BoG), UNC Charlotte announced changes to its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and offices, including many closings and reassignments. The changes were announced to the campus community in an Aug. 8 email from...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can remain on North Carolina’s presidential ballots after a state judge on Monday refused to block printing his name and those of other candidates of the “We the People” party that was recently certified by the State Board of Elections. Wake County Superior Court Judge Keith...

Should high-density development and multi-story apartment complexes be restricted in certain neighborhoods of Waynesville? That’s the hot-button question Waynesville’s town council pledged to look into 16 months ago following public backlash over the rash of apartments and townhomes being permitted in neighborhoods. But after a handshake agreement between the town...