Months after a couple withdrew their rezoning request to build on an ecologically vulnerable Topsail property, residents are pushing to enshrine long-term environmental protections in the town’s regulations. Nonprofit Conserve the Point formed last year to fight against Todd and Laura Olson’s conditional rezoning application to develop around 20 acres...

The Democratic attorney general and the Republican lieutenant governor won North Carolina’s primaries for governor on Tuesday, setting the stage for what will be an expensive and high-stakes November contest in a state that the two parties see as a pivotal battleground. Josh Stein and Mark Robinson, each of whom...

With 100% of precincts reporting, Michele Morrow won the Republican primary election of the superintendent of public instruction with 455,245 votes — 52%. Morrow ran against incumbent Superintendent Catherine Truitt. Morrow is a wife and mom, nurse and homeschool teacher According to her campaign website, Morrow describes herself as a...

Longtime pastor Mark Harris completed a political comeback Tuesday, five years after his earlier win was thrown out in a fraud-tainted race that ended up being one of the only congressional do-overs in U.S. history. Harris appeared to squeak out a victory, with 30.44% of votes cast — just above...

A Wilmington business is being sued for copyright infringement by a nationally known organization that alleges the establishment has been playing protected musical works for its customers without permission. According to a news release from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, or ASCAP, Bull City Ciderworks at 615...

For more than a decade, poultry farmers across the U.S. and North Carolina fought for financial protections from the big agriculture companies that they not only rely on but sometimes fear. Less than a month after those protections went into effect, some members of Congress and agricultural trade groups are...

Once Pactiv Evergreen’s Canton paper mill shut down for good, people wondered how the Pigeon River and the aquatic life it supports would change. While the results have been promising with several species seeming to thrive, there is still plenty of room for improvement. Concerns have grown over what the...

Report for America, which has sent hundreds of journalists to buttress shrinking newsrooms, is phasing out its relationships with hedge fund-owned properties — a reviled group that includes some of the country’s largest newspaper companies. The pullout is the culmination of a two-year estrangement with the McClatchy Co., which severed...

The town of Matthews pulled the plug on Zoom comments Tuesday after last week’s meeting drew a handful of people who connected remotely to make antisemitic, homophobic and otherwise bigoted remarks. Mayor John Higdon was out of town last week. He said he has heard the remote speakers described as...

The resignation of Greensboro City Manager Tai Jaiyeoba on Tuesday, March 5 is puzzling. The City Council is mute about why Jaiyeoba resigned. When asked why Jaiyeoba resigned, Mayor Nancy Vaughan said, “It was a personal decision.” When asked if it was related to the domestic violence incident at Jaiyeoba’s...

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....