North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey announced this week that he has rejected proposed increases in mobile home fire and casualty policies and has set a hearing for next April. The N.C. Rate Bureau had requested an overall state average increase of 82.9% for mobile home fire policies (MH-F) over...

The Catawba Nation is set to begin construction of a more than $700 million permanent casino resort in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, about 35 minutes from downtown Charlotte, after finalizing a settlement with its former casino developer over the ground lease for its trust lands. The Catawba Nation finalized the...

A silver tsunami has washed over Buncombe County for nearly 25 years and shows no signs of receding. During the pandemic years of 2020-2022, adults over 65 accounted for an astonishing 96.1 percent of the increase in Buncombe’s population, according to the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management....

Discussion continues at the county level after proposed state legislation this past month could have ended Moore County’s 11 municipalities’ control of zoning and planning for land immediately adjacent to their borders. The issue will now be subject to a legislative study over the next year, allowing local officials and...

The Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization reviewed some alternative funding sources for future transportation projects at its Wednesday meeting. Kristina Whitfield, a transportation engineer with Kimley-Horn, presented alternative ideas to generate local funding in the Wilmington metro area to supplement dwindling state funding and competitive federal dollars. Whitfield said...

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...