An India-based manufacturer located in Pender County is doubling facility size less than five years after arriving in the area. Polyhose Inc. is located in Pender Commerce Park and is set to take over 8 additional acres adjacent to the current 9-acre property. The company is known for manufacturing thermoplastic...

The superintendent of the Alamance-Burlington School System resigned Monday, capping a short tenure marked since last summer by financial, public health and personnel crises. The Alamance-Burlington Board of Education held a specially called meeting at 10 a.m. Monday and immediately went into closed session to discuss personnel issues. Afterward, the...

A brewery owner once facing multiple charges from citizen-initiated warrants and the Alcohol Enforcement Agency has found some reprieve. Gary Sholar, owner of Edward Teach Brewery, was charged with misdemeanors, including two counts of assault on a female and two counts of communicating threats. They were filed in citizen-initiated warrants...

Valencia Toomer saw the charter revocation coming for the School of the Arts for Boys Academy (SABA) in Chatham County. The director of what was at the time the state’s only all-boys public charter school was prepared. Weeks before the Charter School Review Board revoked SABA’s charter citing enrollment concerns,...

The Mara Salvatrucha, or MS13, is perhaps the most notorious street gang in the Western Hemisphere. While it has its origins in the poor, refugee-laden neighborhoods of 1980s Los Angeles, the gang’s reach now spans from Central America to Europe. A predatory criminal organization, the MS13 lives mostly from extortion....

Highway signs welcome drivers entering North Carolina to “the nation’s most military friendly state,” and veterans here know they’re being courted. But in a state where camouflage-colored appeals have become commonplace, recent efforts by progressive groups to cut into what has long been a reliably red constituency face an early...

Up until this week, Gerard Tate has been the sole employee of the N.C. Office of Violence Prevention. The new office, created last year by an executive order from Gov. Roy Cooper, now also has a deputy director to help coordinate with state and local leaders to reduce violence and...

Citing threats to the environment and public safety, the Dare County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution Monday that requests that the Coast Guard take immediate action to restore the Buxton beach access to its “pre-military condition.” Commissioner Danny Couch presented the resolution during the board’s regular meeting in...

Durham’s ShotSpotter experiment ended Monday night. The city council rejected a three-year contract for the gunshot detection system by a vote of 4-2. Mayor Leonardo Williams and Mayor Pro-Tem Mark-Anthony Middletdon were the only council members who voted in favor. A one-year pilot program began in late 2022. Hidden microphones...

This spring will see the completion of the first major new building project in downtown Chapel Hill in almost a decade. No, it’s not one of the two wet labs the previous councils have approved in recent years. It’s also not the single downtown apartment building the previous council approved...

Lee County is one of the two fastest-growing markets for services provided by FirstHealth of the Carolinas. Mickey Foster, a Lee native and FirstHealth CEO, gave a brief overview of the not-for-profit health-care system based in Pinehurst at the Sanford Area Growth Alliance at Monday’s Public Policy Luncheon. FirstHealth of...

Perhaps no road project in the Asheville region has been talked about longer than the I-26 Connector, a billion-dollar-plus behemoth designed to connect I-26 north of Asheville to I-26 south of town. So when Rob Sheeran bought his three-bedroom, two-bath home in West Asheville two decades ago, he knew one...

Campaign disclosure reports related to Tuesday’s primary election are still flowing in. Unfortunately, some candidates and groups are hiding their activities by capitalizing on our weak election laws or simply ignoring the deadlines for filing reports. Here are a few stories revealed in the reports that supplement my previous NC...

“Follow the money”—and you expect to find some answers. But in the cases of the campaign finance stories from NC Senate District 22 incumbent Mike Woodard and challenger Sophia Chitlik, there are no simple answers. Voters in northern, central and eastern Durham will decide in the March 5 primary which...

North Carolinians are heading to the polls on Tuesday to vote in the primary election and usually start seeing results on election night immediately after polls close at 7:30 p.m. But this year, people will have to wait longer than usual for results. Due to changes in state law, a...