A bipartisan proposal to fix issues with the implementation of a state law that provided for arrest records to be automatically erased in some cases is no longer moving forward. Instead, a legislative committee approved on Wednesday legislation that would repeal the law allowing automatic expunctions. The existing law expunged...

The “Keep Portland Weird!” t-shirts are on sale and it’s still common to encounter employees wearing N-95 masks. Yet that’s not what greets visitors at the iconic Powell’s Books downtown here. The first image is of the private security guard staged just past the entrance. With its ubiquitous hipster coffee...

RedBird Capital and Weatherford Capital are launching a college sports-specific investment fund, one that could lend as much as $2 billion to athletic departments across the country. Led by RedBird founder Gerry Cardinale, Collegiate Athletic Solutions (CAS) is hoping to cash in on a college sports industry in upheaval, with...

Mission Hospital faces an exodus of urologists, and five physicians from a local urology group refuse to practice at the HCA Healthcare-owned hospital, potentially reducing the number of specialists in the system to two by summer. One Mission Urology physician left in October 2023, another was terminated in January, and...

Jane O’Neal is the latest member of the Red Springs town government and law enforcement staff to part ways or be fired by the Robeson County town. O’Neal, who is 68, had served as the town manager since March 2023. She tendered her resignation on May 11. As town manager,...

Proposed revisions to Macon County’s flood damage prevention, soil erosion and sedimentation control, and water supply watershed protection ordinances have resulted in a flood of input from the public, many of whom cite the deadly Peeks Creek disaster of 2004 as a reason to keep strict restrictions in place. “These...

Lawyers with the North Carolina Attorney General’s office tried three times to convince a federal court the state’s “ag-gag” law should stand. They lost in U.S. District Court, which ruled the law violated the constitution. They lost at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the lower court. They...

After Port City United made headlines in recent months due to the arrests of two employees, one commissioner, vocally against its continuation, says he engaged in an alarming incident by a suspended county employee after Monday’s commissioner meeting. Dane Scalise told Port City Daily on Wednesday he felt threatened by...

The state Court of Appeals overturned a 2023 Mecklenburg County move to terminate a mother’s parental rights before attempting to notify Cherokee tribal leaders. The case involves a now 5-year-old child who, according to court records, may be of Cherokee descent. The U.S. Indian Child Welfare Act requires courts to...

Local political activist Margaret Ackiss has responded to a $100,000 libel and slander lawsuit filed against her, denying some allegations, admitting no knowledge of others and providing a list of 14 defenses against the lawsuit. Ackiss hired Morrisville-based law firm K&L Gates LLP – a firm founded by Microsoft-founder Bill...

For many Latino construction workers, work days in the U.S. begin with a simple prayer, Alexis Goldomez says. People pray “to be able to return home,” said Goldomez, a framing carpenter who grew up in Honduras and now works in Charlotte. But in North Carolina, those prayers too often go...

A North Carolina board that regulates land surveyors didn’t violate a drone photography pilot’s constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services because he lacked a state license, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. The panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of...

Part-time state workers could soon be allowed to participate in the state 401(k) retirement savings plan, under a bill that advanced at the state legislature Tuesday. The House Pensions and Retirement Committee passed three bills making a wide range of changes to state pension law. Many were minor or technical...

Sheila Gasquet, a resident of the Northside neighborhood in downtown Wilmington, grew up on an Air Force base, so she’s accustomed to the sounds of planes. “I support the military,” she said. “I think we do need a robust airport, but being downtown … the noise from certain aircraft are...

When, on Sunday, May 19, the entire full-time Summerfield town staff collectively and simultaneously announced their resignation – shocking town residents and Town Councilmembers alike – the main reason given was the treatment of Town Manager Scott Whitaker, who had led the town in that position for a dozen years,...