State and county elections officials in North Carolina are accustomed to sudden and frequent change to voting rules and schedules. In 2021, a court decision over redistricting suspended candidate filing for the 2022 midterms and moved the primaries from March to May. And in 2022, the conservative-majority North Carolina Supreme...

Democratic leaders from both the House and Senate led a news conference Thursday calling for child care investment in this year’s North Carolina budget. “Increasingly, adequate access to these critical facilities is getting harder and harder for North Carolina families to find,” said Sen. Dan Blue, D-Wake. “Child care is...

Advocates for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a long list of needs that they would like state lawmakers to address. This year, though, they’re focusing on two main initiatives. They would like to see the hourly pay rate for direct support professionals increased to $18. These workers help...

The developer that owns Northgate Mall in Durham tweaked its rezoning proposal for the defunct mall and now proposes adding some affordable housing. Why it matters: The new proposal from Northwood Investors is an attempt to compromise with the neighboring Walltown community, which has resisted the developer’s initial plans to...

A new economic engine for Waynesville is one closer to reality with the proposed mapping of special districts along the railway. The Waynesville planning board unanimously agreed to two maps for its Railroad Overlay District (RRO). Town leaders hope the district will stimulate economic development along a portion of the...

The dueling Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement projects have been scored by the North Carolina Department of Transportation, spelling out how much funding the state agency is willing to put toward the projects. As expected, the option to replace the structure with a tolled bridge ranked higher than the same...

Last month, the Carolina Leadership Coalition and the Carolina Partnership for Reform commissioned Meeting Street Insights to conduct a statewide survey of registered voters in North Carolina, which took place between April 25-28 of this year. The survey had a sampling size of 500 registered voters with a margin error...

The Charlotte Area Transit System may not be able to build the 26-mile Silver Line light rail under a new transit proposal being considered. The proposal would cap the total expenditure on new rail projects at about 40% of the revenues from a new, one-cent sales tax. A revised transit...

Another home has crumbled into the sea in Rodanthe, N.C., the scenic Outer Banks community where rising seas and relentless erosion have claimed a growing number of houses and forced some property owners to take drastic measures to retreat from the oceanfront. The National Park Service, which manages the Cape...

Compensation levels for CEOs hit new heights last year, but they were more of a mixed bag for leaders of some of the Triangle’s largest companies. State of play: Of the 24 publicly traded Triangle companies surveyed by Axios, 11 of their CEOs received pay increases in 2023 and 11...

Cars just aren’t worth repairing anymore. One in every five cars seen by an insurance adjuster is estimated to cost too much to be repaired and returned to drivable condition. There are a ton of factors to look at here, but with high-tech lighting and sensors at the extremities of...

A gene found in a strain of avian influenza – H5N1 – was detected in industrial discharge from the Forsyth County/ Winston-Salem wastewater treatment plant last month, scientists found, coinciding with an outbreak in a herd of dairy cattle in west-central North Carolina. Scientists at Stanford and Emory universities published...

In a year marked by delays and technical issues, North Carolina school districts are finding creative ways to increase student completions of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) across the state. This year, five school districts (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Guilford County Schools, Iredell-Statesville Schools, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, and Union...

The risk of derailment increases with freight train length, according to an academic study published today, which found that a 200-car train is 24% more likely to derail than a 50-car train. The study — by researchers from Brigham Young University, Georgetown University, and Virginia Tech — analyzed Federal Railroad...

Nearly 150,000 policyholders in the state will have to wait almost a year to find out if the cost of their mobile home insurance will increase. The North Carolina Rate Bureau filed April 8 a proposed overall state average increase of 82.9% for mobile home fire policies and 49.9% for...