The F.W. Woolworth Co. Building, opened in 1939, is an iconic presence in downtown Asheville, a prominent façade along bustling Haywood Street at the heart of the city’s business district, made notable by its Art Deco design and eye-grabbing red sign. But the building’s historical significance resonates beyond its architectural...

What type of pollution is so tiny it can be invisible to the naked eye? Hint: Humans ingest it through the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink. The answer: microplastics. Microplastics are produced from the breakdown of the millions of tons of plastics —...

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is investigating a cyberattack on a vendor-managed system from May. On May 13, an NC SBI agency network received an email with details about how their network had been hacked. The email came weeks after the SBI got some warnings that their agency...

Elizabeth City’s interim police chief was sworn in last week as president of North Carolina’s largest and oldest police officers association. James E. Avens Jr. took over as the top leader of the North Carolina Police Executives Association on July 16, succeeding outgoing president Chief Estella Patterson of the Raleigh...

Chuck E. commerce may never be quite the same, with a host of features geared toward the next generation of cheeseheads. On Friday, July 26 a grand reopening from 5-7 pm will showcase a host of changes the Chuck E. Cheese chain has implemented nationwide. Pineville is one of a...

As Vice President Kamala Harris steps into her new role campaigning for president, the frenzy over who her potential running mate could be is underway. A possibility on her list is North Carolina’s two-term Democratic governor, Roy Cooper. Cooper has served in the highest seat while Republicans maintain a supermajority...

Vice President Kamala Harris returns to North Carolina Thursday, the same day former President Donald Trump is expected to give his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention after becoming the party’s nominee for president. Thursday’s visit to Fayetteville marks Harris’ second visit to the Tar Heel State in two...

Democratic delegates from North Carolina unanimously endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s presidential nominee Sunday after a whirlwind of political maneuvering in the hours after President Joe Biden abandoned his reelection campaign. Biden said Sunday afternoon on social media that he won’t seek reelection and endorsed Harris...

When the Democratic Party convenes for its national convention on Aug. 19, it will get to select its presidential candidate, primary results notwithstanding. And if Vice President Kamala Harris is nominated to replace President Joe Biden atop the ticket, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) must act accordingly...

Republican officials named in a defamation lawsuit surrounding failed efforts to bring new casinos to North Carolina are asking for a specific judge to hear the case — one who has ruled in favor of casinos before and has worked for one of the state’s top lawmakers. On July 12,...

A North Carolina retirees’ civil rights advocacy group didn’t have standing to challenge the state’s requirement that voters live in their voting precinct 30 days prior to an election in order to vote, a federal court said. The Alliance for Retired Americans said that the requirement violated Section 202 of...

A decade ago, Jordan Hennessy was a 19-year-old state legislative aide making roughly $33,000 a year in the office of a Republican state senator representing Dare County. At 29, Hennessy now helps run two distinctly different businesses that were created just as lawmakers in the Republican-dominated state legislature awarded a...

The TCPA remains the most dangerous statute out there and the biggest cash cow in American history for the plaintiff’s bar. And it isn’t slowing down as news of another 7 figure settlement is out today. A Blue Cross entity in North Carolina just agreed to pay $1.6MM along with...

No dog parks. No golf. No soccer or football. No child care centers, apartments or homes. No community gardens unless they’re in raised beds. The list of forbidden uses on 10 contaminated acres containing 46,000 tons of coal ash in Chapel Hill is nearly as long as what is allowed:...

A new campaign is launching to help give North Carolina public schools a boost. Recently the North Carolina School Boards Association has announced a new campaign called “Public Education Does the Public Good”. The campaign aims to highlight that a healthy public-school benefit everyone and even has an animated video....