Environmental organizations are seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit brought by a North Carolina commercial seafood business operator that they contend seeks to virtually eliminate remaining federal wetlands protections that were dramatically scaled back last year. The Southern Environmental Law Center said Wednesday it had filed in the U.S....

No payroll. No receipts. No bills or invoices. Lacking any supporting documentation, James Freeman, president of the Emerging Technology Institute, nonetheless asked the Town of Red Springs to reimburse him $1.1 million in state taxpayer funds for “service, salaries and goods” related to his military training center and STEM education...

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners has pulled a pair of incentives hearings set for its meeting Thursday so state officials can keep conversing with the economic development prospects without having to publicly release details at this point. Last week the commissioners issued public notices that they were considering economic...

Residents living near one of the three golf courses in Waynesville can sleep in an extra hour without the hum of lawn mowers after Waynesville town council put new limits on the hours of operation of lawn equipment last month. Waynesville’s noise ordinance allows lawn maintenance activity to commence at...

Robbins Elementary School is unique within Moore County, in that its student population is over 50 percent Hispanic, and 28 percent require English as a second language (ESL) services. Additionally, the school maintains the county’s lone dual-language immersion program. But a recent district performance study analyzing student achievement metrics —...

The New Hanover County Board of Education struck down two options for legal counsel, choosing to stick with Charlotte-based Vogel Law Firm until the end of June. The board created a committee in February to look at other options for legal counsel after board members expressed concern that Vogel Law...

The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to divert millions of dollars spent on diversity, equity and inclusion programs into public safety instead, ahead of an expected policy change statewide to restrict DEI. At a special meeting Monday morning, the board unanimously moved to reallocate the $2.3 million that the...

Martin Redeker and Joe Carroll spent more than five years toiling in a windowless steel barn in Duplin County, perfecting a low- to no-emissions technology they said would transform how hog waste could be used to generate electricity. Such was the faith in the project that Montauk Renewables, a publicly...

Jim Phillips has come to a halt. For 30 minutes, his hectic professional life has been paused for piety. Hands clasped in front of him, posture perfect and body absolutely still, it is time to pray. The commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference has fled the bustle of men’s basketball...

From SouthPark to Steele Creek, Mountain Island Lake to Waxhaw, sleek and efficient freestanding emergency rooms are springing up across the Charlotte region to serve patients, no hospital required. Since 2010, Atrium Health has opened eight standalone emergency rooms in the Charlotte metro area, part of a nationwide building boom....

A trade group that lobbies governments on behalf of developers, builders and real estate brokers questions whether High Point’s new long-range growth guide will promote affordable housing. Judy Stalder, regulatory affairs director for the Triad Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition, or TREBIC, said she thinks the High Point 2045...

A new study by N.C. State University researchers has found that North Carolina public schools are becoming more segregated by race, even as the overall student population becomes more racially diverse. If your child is white, Black or Asian, they are more likely to attend a school where their own...

The wrongful termination and civil conspiracy case filed against local law enforcement and the district attorney by the former crime lab director was in court again on Thursday, though not for a final decision. Representing the district attorney, Chris Carreiro argued the November order re-adding District Attorney Ben David as...

Following uproar in the state’s far west over noise and other disruptions brought by cryptocurrency mining, Buncombe County has extended by a year its temporary ban on such operations. County officials say they are struggling with how to write rules protecting residents from problems that those who have experienced them...

At its May 7 meeting, the Southern Shores Town Council, by a 3-0 vote of the three members attending the meeting, passed an ordinance banning the release of balloons in the town. In doing so, it became the second Dare County municipality, after Duck, to enact such a measure. The...