Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The state has OK’d the city of High Point’s revised timeline for financing an upcoming road project. The North Carolina Local Government Commission recently granted the city’s request for a three-year extension to issue general obligation bonds for the Triangle Lake Road reconstruction. It’s among...

Barbara Ortutay/The Associated Press & WRAL News Fortnite publisher Epic Games said Tuesday it is laying off 1,000 employees to save money as it grapples with industry-wide and company-specific challenges. The Cary, North Carolina-based video game publisher said in a memo to employees that the job cuts are not related...

Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online Something potentially and significantly consequential is underway now in North Carolina that could alter management of the state’s increasingly battered Atlantic coastline. The state Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel is in the process of finalizing an analysis of beach erosion-control structures, a report that is expected...

Chloe Courtney Bohl/IndyWeek Wesley Knott will continue to serve as chair of the Wake County Democratic Party (WCDP) following a successful vote of confidence in his leadership at Saturday’s county party convention. Some Wake Democrats called for Knott’s resignation last week based on his decision to endorse Nida Allam in...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer To make ends meet, the county has dipped into its cash reserves to the tune of $24.7 million this fiscal year — more than four times what it normally borrows from reserves and twice what the county initially anticipated. The deplenished piggy bank is now a...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The New Hanover County Board of Elections met in closed session on Monday night, reportedly to discuss Director DeNay Harris’ job performance. Put on administrative paid leave, the director has made email-tampering claims toward the county, with preliminary results of a third-party investigation and computer forensic...

Mebane Rash/Education NC The week after Chatham County Schools announced his retirement in a press release, the Public School Forum of North Carolina announced it has hired Dr. Anthony Jackson to serve as its chief executive officer after a national search. Jackson is known and respected for “leading from the...

Brian Burns/WUNC News After announcing last week an intention to sell the record studio Fidelitorium Recordings, owner Mitch Easter now says those plans are on “indefinite hiatus” due to complications with the sales process. Easter did not delve into those complications, but stressed that people shouldn’t read too much into...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio The Boone Town Council unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on data center development Monday night. The move was cheered by a capacity crowd of residents at the town hall. That was gratifying for Mayor Dalton George, who brought the issue to the council. “That’s the whole point...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise An appointed city board now has review and approval authority for special-use permits in High Point. The City Council on Monday approved an ordinance change transferring this responsibility from it to the Board of Adjustment. The city requires these permits for things such as cellphone...

Greater Fayetteville Business Journal Nearly $26 million in awards through the state’s Stop-Gap Solutions program will be used to connect 5,161 rural North Carolina homes, businesses and community anchor institutions in 66 counties to high-speed internet infrastructure by the end of 2026. The Stop-Gap Solutions program, administered by the N.C....

Katie Peralta Soloff/Axios Raleigh   Ten years ago, House Bill 2 — the “bathroom bill” — became law, setting off years of political and economic shifts in North Carolina.   The fallout from the now-repealed measure was marked by widespread corporate pressure and boycotts.   HB2, which rankled the power...

Cierra Noffke/WilmingtonBiz The N. C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has received an unsolicited conceptual proposal for the design, build, finance and operation of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, funded partially through tolls. According to a notice included in the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (WMPO) agenda for its regular...

Brian Gordon/The Raleigh News & Observer Since 2022, North Carolina has spent more than $50 million in taxpayer dollars to build a “superfactory” at the Greensboro airport that today, nearly two years after its completion, sits dormant. It is not for a lack of companies wanting to occupy this long,...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press In 2015, Mark Oakley, then an officer with the Roanoke Rapids Police Department, slammed a detainee at the Halifax County jail to the ground, then “tased him” while the man was “in handcuffs and posed no threat,” according to a civil lawsuit later filed against Oakley....