Flooding in the Midwestern U.S. collapsed a railroad bridge and sent water surging around a dam Monday after days of heavy rains that have forced hundreds of people to evacuate or be rescued from rising waters. The flooding brought additional misery to parts of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota...

The housing markets of North Carolina’s largest metropolitan areas — Charlotte and Raleigh — are seriously and severely unaffordable, respectively, according to a recent report from urban planning policy firm Demographia. Demographia ranked cities by median multiple, a figure calculated by dividing the location’s median house price by the median...

Superintendent Catherine Truitt and I sat down for a conversation last week at EdNC’s annual retreat with our board, strategic council, and team. I think Truitt and I first met when EdNC held our student town hall in February 2020 in Edgecombe County ahead of that year’s election. Abdur, one...

Raleigh’s zoning reform has been one of the most effective policies in the country at creating more housing, Patrick Young, Raleigh’s director of planning and development, told the Raleigh City Council. Why it matters: Raleigh’s ongoing tweaks to its zoning code are similar to those of many cities nationwide trying...

Last November, just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amichai Chikli, a brash, 42-year-old Likud minister in the Israeli government, was called into the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to brief lawmakers on what could be done about rising anti-war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite universities....

After breaking ground just 10 short months ago, the construction of the new north concourse at Asheville Regional Airport is making swift progress. The project is much-needed, as the now-crammed local airport ranked in the top five fastest-growing airports in the country 2023. Surpassing 2.2 million passengers, it is now...

Storms largely drive sand movement along the Bald Head Island beachfront and sand is being lapped away at the east end, where village officials are considering building a series of rock structures on to hold the Atlantic Ocean at bay. The unpredictability in the frequency and strength of those storms...

The town council put forth a proposal to limit house sizes in Oak Island on Tuesday and the measure now heads to the town’s planning board for review. Council member Bill Ciullo proposed two scenarios in which the town could limit mega-home construction aimed at reducing an influx of rental...

Two months after signing a contract to outsource local sports promotions to a Florida company, the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority (TDA) has told the local sports commission it will cut its remaining $60,000 in annual funding from the TDA effective at the end of June. Relations have been strained...

A High Point woman failed to demonstrate that state and local officials acted unreasonably and violated her civil rights when she was arrested at an April 2020 protest against Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 emergency orders, a federal judge ruled this week. And if any of her rights were violated, the...

Car dealers nationwide are dealing with the fallout from a cyberattack this week that’s said to have forced at least some of them to shift to paper sales records. The attack, affecting Chicago-based CDK Global, was first reported Wednesday, but the situation, according to a metro Detroit dealer, had not...

Duke Energy remains a powerful force in the General Assembly as a lawmaker who receives income from the utility pushes legislation to expedite permit reviews for its proposed natural gas plants. Meanwhile, appointed officials charged with overseeing potential conflicts of interest own stock in the company. Duke is one of...

North Carolina’s state treasurer, Dale Folwell, has built a reputation as someone who will go to battle for state employees, demanding transparency from government partners while trying to protect every tax dollar. That’s why news of a government investigation into Folwell’s possible use of state-owned vehicles for personal errands stunned...

With each legislative chamber uninterested in hearing the other’s spending proposal, North Carolina lawmakers look ready to go on hiatus after next week while a stalemate simmers between Republicans over how to adjust the current two-year state budget. “Perhaps during this summertime with a lot of heat, maybe a little...

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders are appealing portions of a federal judge’s order this month that blocked several state laws that restrict how abortion pills can be dispensed, including the requirement that only physicians can provide the drugs to patients. Lawyers for Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim...