Elena Marsh/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Taylortown continues to encounter hurdles as it reimagines its government staff and structure. In its latest setback, the state’s Local Government Commission has told the town it would be withholding a portion of the town’s sales tax proceeds as a penalty for overdue audits. Taylortown...

Paul Woolverton/CityView The Fayetteville City Council voted 8-1 on Monday night to engage a new developer to build a hotel and apartment tower on top of the Hay Street Parking Garage—a project city leaders hope will bring a long-sought economic jolt to the downtown area. The new developer predicts it...

Jesse Campbell/Ashe Post & Times Ashe County taxpayers took one step closer to learning the identity of a West Jefferson mystery business that will receive $1 million from county and town funds over the coming years for undisclosed economic development. The Ashe County Board of Commissioners and West Jefferson Aldermen...

Alyssa Kapasi/WFAE Radio The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case challenging its landmark decision to legalize gay marriage nationwide. The challenge to the court’s 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court’s Obergefell v....

Chase Jordan/The (Charlotte) Observer Flight cancellations and passenger misery continued to rise Monday at Charlotte’s airport after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered flight reductions nationwide, as the government shutdown continues into another month. Charlotte Douglas International Airport was named one of 40 major U.S. airports subject to the mandatory reductions,...

Brian Murphy/WRAL News Incoming undergraduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill could see a tuition and fee increase beginning next year, for the first time in nearly a decade. North Carolina State University is also proposing tuition increases for all of its students as public universities deal with expected budget cuts from...

Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press This fall, Asheville’s Mission Hospital faced Immediate Jeopardy, the most serious citation federal regulators can deliver, for the second time in two years. Once again, the beleaguered hospital system appears to have wiggled its way out of meaningful consequences. The hospital has submitted a plan...

Chandler Inions/The (Salisbury) Post      “I can’t wait until I can take a knife, cut a Sunkist orange into quarters and enjoy it.” Such a small urge might not seem like a tall task but denying himself foods that he loves has become a reality for Livingstone College President Dr. Anthony...

Charlie Kingree/Wilmington StarNews Two new Amazon facilities are being built at the Pender Commerce Park, a 330-acre industrial park located off U.S. 421 close to the New Hanover County border. One is specifically being built to serve customers in the greater Wilmington area, while the other has a much larger...

Deanna Ballard/Education NC The smell hit first — that unmistakable scent of fresh paint, new flooring, and possibility that​ only exists in a building waiting to be filled with life. But on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 22,​ Valle Crucis School wasn’t waiting anymore. The front doors were held open...

The (Waynesville) Mountaineer One of two lanes along Interstate 40 eastbound between Waynesville and Canton will close next week from 9 p.m. Monday night until Thursday afternoon. A contractor for the N.C. Department of Transportation is closing a lane from mile marker 29 to Champion Drive (exit 31) to shift...

Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily More businesses are one step closer to setting up in Surf City in a recently approved conditional rezoning, though residents and council members alike shared concerns over the town’s sewage and traffic capacity. On Nov. 5, the Surf City Town Council approved the conditional rezoning of...

Charlotte Business Journal One of the Charlotte region’s most prominent economic development figures is retiring. Mike Legg, Kannapolis’ longtime city manager, announced today he would retire on April 30. Legg has served as city manager since 2004. He worked for the city for nearly a decade before that. Legg was...

Outer Banks Voice/Kip Tabb Fourteen houses have fallen into the Atlantic Ocean on the north end of Buxton since the end of summer, and more will fall this winter said Brian Harris, President of the Buxton Civic Association. “I think we’re halfway there. It’s going to be upward of 30,”...

Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog Brittany Ebert thinks federal lawmakers might reopen the government and resume food stamp funding if they knew what it was like to feed three children on a tight budget. Ebert, who filled a bag with free produce Monday at the nonprofit Bounty & Soul’s market in Swannanoa,...