Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The New Hanover County Board of Elections met in closed session on Monday night, reportedly to discuss Director DeNay Harris’ job performance. Put on administrative paid leave, the director has made email-tampering claims toward the county, with preliminary results of a third-party investigation and computer forensic...

Mebane Rash/Education NC The week after Chatham County Schools announced his retirement in a press release, the Public School Forum of North Carolina announced it has hired Dr. Anthony Jackson to serve as its chief executive officer after a national search. Jackson is known and respected for “leading from the...

Brian Burns/WUNC News After announcing last week an intention to sell the record studio Fidelitorium Recordings, owner Mitch Easter now says those plans are on “indefinite hiatus” due to complications with the sales process. Easter did not delve into those complications, but stressed that people shouldn’t read too much into...

April Laissle/WFDD Radio The Boone Town Council unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on data center development Monday night. The move was cheered by a capacity crowd of residents at the town hall. That was gratifying for Mayor Dalton George, who brought the issue to the council. “That’s the whole point...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise An appointed city board now has review and approval authority for special-use permits in High Point. The City Council on Monday approved an ordinance change transferring this responsibility from it to the Board of Adjustment. The city requires these permits for things such as cellphone...

Greater Fayetteville Business Journal Nearly $26 million in awards through the state’s Stop-Gap Solutions program will be used to connect 5,161 rural North Carolina homes, businesses and community anchor institutions in 66 counties to high-speed internet infrastructure by the end of 2026. The Stop-Gap Solutions program, administered by the N.C....

Katie Peralta Soloff/Axios Raleigh   Ten years ago, House Bill 2 — the “bathroom bill” — became law, setting off years of political and economic shifts in North Carolina.   The fallout from the now-repealed measure was marked by widespread corporate pressure and boycotts.   HB2, which rankled the power...

Cierra Noffke/WilmingtonBiz The N. C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has received an unsolicited conceptual proposal for the design, build, finance and operation of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, funded partially through tolls. According to a notice included in the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (WMPO) agenda for its regular...

Brian Gordon/The Raleigh News & Observer Since 2022, North Carolina has spent more than $50 million in taxpayer dollars to build a “superfactory” at the Greensboro airport that today, nearly two years after its completion, sits dormant. It is not for a lack of companies wanting to occupy this long,...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press In 2015, Mark Oakley, then an officer with the Roanoke Rapids Police Department, slammed a detainee at the Halifax County jail to the ground, then “tased him” while the man was “in handcuffs and posed no threat,” according to a civil lawsuit later filed against Oakley....

Heidi Perez-Moreno/CityView The state board that oversees charter schools in North Carolina had so many concerns about the Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy in 2022 that it considered closing the Bladen County school. The academy had received a failing grade the previous school year from the state’s Department of Public...

Sharryse Piggott/WUNC News The State Library of North Carolina is now in a partnership with Wake County Libraries aimed at bridging the gap to make reading books more accessible to people with disabilities. “This partnership helps to ensure that a person’s physical condition or location never limits opportunities for lifelong...

Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News   A leaked draft of the FEMA Review Council’s final report on reform of the disaster response agency appears to shift considerable burden onto states, local governments, tribes and territories (SLTTs) while slashing the agency’s workforce by 50%, positioning federal response in the rear and largely...

Akilah Davis/WTVD News For nearly six years, Northgate Mall in Durham has sat empty. Now, plans for retail giant Target to move in could signal a new chapter for the long-vacant property. “It would be nice for another shopping center to come big time,” said Melinda Wilkins, who lives just...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The North Carolina Department of Transportation has cancelled a tour of the neighborhoods near the controversial Interstate 77 express toll lane project, citing what it says are credible security concerns. DOT secretary Daniel Johnson was supposed to tour impacted neighborhoods near center city with community leaders and...