High Point’s cost to purchase wholesale power is projected to drop by $7 million this year, but the city will not pass these savings along to its electric utility customers. ElectriCities of North Carolina will decrease the rate that the cooperative charges High Point and the 18 other cities to...

After a new town policy restricting recordings of meetings drew complaints that it appears to violate North Carolina’s Open Meetings law, the town of Yanceyville appears to be backing away from its initial approach, though the disputed policy remains in effect. Council members in Yanceyville unanimously approved an amendment to...

Temporary harvest reporting rules for coastal recreational and commercial fishers were adopted Thursday by the advisory boards to the state agencies responsible for enforcing the rules. The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission and the Wildlife Resources Commission in separate meetings Thursday morning approved the rules, which will go into effect...

With as much turmoil that’s going on in Summerfield right now, you might think no one would want the job captaining the ship – however, there was at least one person who wanted that job, and, at a Thursday, June 6 meeting of the Summerfield Town Council, the council named...

With Dare County mandated to return $35 million in housing funds to the state, a suit filed last year by its six towns contesting the conditions attached to that money has been withdrawn. Last October, the six municipalities filed the litigation after a special housing provision inserted into the state...

Lawmakers began questioning the head of the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles Thursday, an interrogation that comes as the division faces mounting delays in issuing driver licenses and identification cards — and as lawmakers seek more control over who runs the division. DMV Commissioner Wayne Goodwin, who underwent a...

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council has voted to amend Tribal Code to allow the sale of recreational marijuana, opening the door for North Carolina’s first recreational marijuana dispensary to open on the Qualla Boundary by the end of the summer, despite the drug being illegal in the...

Nearly 100 Asheville nurses rallied outside Mission Hospital on Wednesday morning, less than a month before the renegotiation of their contract with HCA-owned Mission Health. With the backing of their union, the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC), nurses at the hospital are seeking to draw attention to what they see...

A judge is blocking a popular North Carolina tourism area from defying the state’s school calendar law. The Carteret County school board had adopted a calendar for the 2024-25 school year that starts classes Aug. 13 — two weeks earlier than allowed under state law. On Wednesday, Superior Court Judge...

This fall’s presidential ballot in battleground North Carolina appears poised to lengthen after three political movements seeking to run candidates filed voter signature lists with state election officials by a Monday deadline. Groups that want Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West on the ballot — the “We The People”...

Children’s Village Academy, a K-8 charter school in Kinston, will be forced to close at the end of this month. The North Carolina Board of Education Thursday rejected its appeal for a fresh start, with one member calling it “a school that appears to be unable to pay its bills...

A new economic engine for Waynesville would open up the railroad track corridor through town to more types of development, under a proposal originating from the town planning board. After more than a year of discussion on the idea, the Waynesville planning board unanimously endorsed maps for a so-called Railroad...

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again; however, the Summerfield Town Council is trying to do something a little similar: Very quickly assemble an entirely new town staff in a matter of days – because every member of the town staff...

A former Greensboro top official has been named the interim town manager for the town of Zebulon. Taiwo Jaiyeoba abruptly resigned from his position as Greensboro’s city manager in March. Two senior-level city employees later told WFDD he had violated the city’s sexual harassment policy. That wasn’t discussed on Tuesday...

At last night’s New Hanover County Board of Education meeting, members voted four to one to further amend policies 7300 and 3200, which outline staff responsibilities and selection of instructional materials, respectively. The motion, introduced by board member Pat Bradford, will effectively eliminate student art, family photos, and foreign nations’...