The most recent round of a decades-long project to maintain an inlet on the North End of Wrightsville Beach has faced delays, but the county remains hopeful it will complete by the March 31 deadline. On Feb. 25, New Hanover County and engineering firm Gahagan and Bryant Associates sent a...

Mission Hospital is no longer in immediate jeopardy, but inspectors will return to the hospital for another survey in three months, according to a U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services statement and letter obtained by Asheville Watchdog on Wednesday. The finding, based on a visit to the hospital last...

Mike Causey has no shortage of enemies in his own party. The two-term insurance commissioner brought down a major North Carolina Republican donor for bribery in an FBI sting in 2019 that also entangled the head of the state GOP, a former congressman who’d once been the party’s nominee for...

The North Carolina Department of Transportation has submitted the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement project for federal grant consideration, which could cover up to half the cost of the over $400 million new bridge. The grant application for the federal Bridge Investment Program requests the maximum amount allowed, $242.15 million....

The phones at many dental offices across North Carolina have been ringing repeatedly in recent months with requests for oral health care from newly enrolled Medicaid recipients. The state’s expansion of Medicaid benefits to nearly 600,000 low-income residents on Dec. 1 opened a robust array of services such as dental...

Teacher turnover has remained “roughly constant” since the General Assembly introduced state-funded bonus and supplement programs for teachers in 2016, N.C. Fiscal Research Division analyst Mary Schuler told lawmakers on Tuesday during a Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee (JLEOC) meeting. The attrition rates highlighted by Schuler range from 8.7% in...

During its Feb. 22 meeting, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission voted to adopt a slate of proposed rule changes for the coming year, including a pair of controversial measures that will shift the season dates for white-tailed deer and significantly expand the season length for black bear in the mountain...

There are three inches of space between pilots on the Vulcanair V1 single engine aircraft. For new flyers, having the instructor only a glance away is comforting, especially at 1,300 feet in the air. Sovereign Aerospace, a Moore County-based aviation management company, has the goal of bringing the joy of...

Gaston County employees repeatedly protested as payroll problems dragged on for more than a year. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday approved a $16.5 million contract to begin converting its payroll and business systems to Oracle Cloud. That’s the same system Gaston County Schools used in its disastrous conversion that began...

Potters Industries, a glass bead manufacturing company, purchased the former Ardagh glass manufacturing plant on Firestone Parkway for $6.5 million. “This purchase represents another investment by Potters in North Carolina,” company spokesman Andy Andersen said. “Potters initially intends to modify existing warehouse space in Wilson in order to enhance our...

A former member of the Guilford County Board of Education who lost his appointed seat last year in a partisan legal dispute said he has collected enough signatures to qualify as an unaffiliated candidate for the fall general election. Bill Goebel needs at least 2,132 signatures from registered voters in...

Federal health officials are investigating whether exposure to hazardous materials at a pair of Triangle-area university buildings could have caused cancer among employees. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating N.C. State’s Poe Hall and UNC Health’s McLendon Laboratories to determine whether there is an increased risk...

A new joint venture plans to spend $60 million and add 133 jobs for a production facility in Liberty that will make parts for electronic vehicle batteries. FTBC, a joint venture between Fujihatsu Tech America and Toyota Tsusho America, will make and sell prismatic aluminum cell cases and cell covers...

During its quarterly meeting and retreat, the Duke University Board of Trustees elected Duke alumnus and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to serve as the board’s next chair, succeeding Laurene Sperling. Silver’s three-year term will begin July 1. A member of the Board of Trustees since 2015, Silver has served as...

Macy’s will close 150 unproductive namesake stores over the next three years including 50 by year-end, the department store operator said Tuesday after posting a fourth-quarter loss and declining sales. As part of the strategy, Macy’s aims to upgrade its remaining 350 stores, with plans to add more salespeople to...