The backlog of North Carolina drivers licenses, which at one point reached 350,000 and forced state residents to wait up to eight weeks to receive their IDs, has now been cleared according to the North Carolina Department Motor Vehicles. North Carolina DMV will be fully transitioned over from IDEMIA, its...

Health codes require businesses serving food to close if they lose water, but when a water line break disrupted water service along Russ Avenue in Waynesville on Wednesday, Publix managed to stay open anyway — filling the morning bakery cases with fresh goods, butchering meat and serving up all the...

The Charlotte City Council is scheduled to vote Monday on spending $650 million in tax money to renovate Bank of America Stadium, in a deal that would require the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC to stay in Charlotte for 15 years. The city of Charlotte released more details on Friday...

The city of High Point has filed a civil lawsuit against chemical companies it claims are responsible for contaminants in its water system. The suit says it aims to recover the costs and damages the city has incurred because of PFAS compounds in the public water supply and related infrastructure....

Major changes to North Carolina’s elections rules, in 2024 or beyond, were unveiled Thursday in a state Senate committee — including one proposed change that critics say would give the Republican-led legislature the power to change how local city and county governments are elected, in order to weaken Democratic political...

Saint Augustine’s University Board of Trustees Chairman Brian Boulware is fighting back against allegations against him and the leadership of the Raleigh HBCU. Boulware and the Board of Trustees were all recently sued by SAVE SAU Coalition. That’s a group comprised of alumni, parents, students, and others with a special...

The North Carolina House’s budget proposal would change how the state funds subsidized child care. Advocates worry that the change would lead to higher costs for most families receiving assistance. The plan also would provide one year’s worth of stabilization funding, at a reduced level. That funding is meant to...

Without immediate action from the General Assembly, Pandemic-era federal grants to child care providers will run out on July 1 — plunging the state into a child care crisis that will hamper economic and workforce development, make child care more difficult to find and further burden North Carolina’s working parents...

Asheville and Buncombe’s Community Reparations Commission has completed its recommendations, passing 38 suggested policies and programs. After more than two years of research, reckoning, debate and dialogue, the Asheville and Buncombe Community Reparations Commission held its final vote, approving the last of its 38 policy recommendations for local government to...

Local representatives expressed confusion this month after a broadly supported provision to automate expunctions for dismissed and “not guilty” charges was eliminated in a state committee. Weeks later, the lawmaker who pushed the removal slipped language into a different bill to require a suspension of the provision for another year....

Tylor Freeman would like to go home. His problem? There’s no home to go to. Instead, the 29-year-old has been cooling his heels at WakeMed hospital in Raleigh for more than 100 days. Freeman’s odyssey began last fall when he needed to have a minor medical procedure. He has cerebral...

The Asheville City Council plans to vote next month on a housing development in East Asheville’s Haw Creek neighborhood, as the developer, the city and community members say they are making progress toward agreement on the project. The 27-acre “Meadows at Haw Creek” proposal, located at 767 New Haw Creek...

There’s no money right now to do anything about them, but transportation planning representatives for southern Moore County this week prioritized five road projects for funding. Call it “practice,” if you will, because that’s what Aberdeen Town Manager Paul Sabiston calls it. He is the chair of the advisory group...

The Cape Fear Business Alliance, an organization of small businesses, voiced their support for renewed legislative efforts to hold PFAS manufacturers like Chemours financially liable for the cost of clean water. By contrast, the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce has opposed the legislation. Wilmington’s Chamber, meanwhile, declined to comment. On...

While most U.S. homeowners are sitting on a mountain of home equity after years of rising house prices, a number of mortgage holders in pockets of North Carolina are underwater on their loans. Why it matters: That means these folks owe more on the mortgage than their home is worth,...