The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled for a second time against a proposed 141-lot Durham subdivision.
So long as North Carolina’s laws and institutions regulating municipalities remain as they are, strong roadblocks are in place to prevent the financial follies of cities across the country.
Raleigh, Durham, and Charlotte rank in the top 10 for best Southern metro cities for tech workers.
A recent study highlights several North Carolina cities as top destinations for careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).
The third storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season — and the first to make landfall in the US — Tropical Storm Chantal caused significant damage in North Carolina. The NCDOT has closed 120 roads due to flooding through Alamance County, including I-40/85.
Wolfspeed, a Durham-based semiconductor supplier, announced in a press release on Sunday that it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy under a restructuring agreement they say will strengthen the company’s financial profile and give creditors control.
Two North Carolina cities have cracked the top 30 in WalletHub’s first annual Happiest Cities in America report. The rankings were determined using 29 metrics, with Raleigh (22) and Durham (29) leading the way for North Carolina. Key factors included Emotional & Physical Well-Being, Income & Employment, and Community & Environment. Source: WalletHub While it’s...
The police department in Winston-Salem uses a commercial product called ShotSpotter, a network of audio sensors and software, to identify possible incidents of gunfire and ensure a faster response to them. Since its implementation in 2021, the system appears to have reduced the number of aggravated assaults and saved at least two lives of gunshot...
With all eyes on North Carolina for its part in the Super Tuesday primary, Vice-President Kamala Harris paid a visit to Durham on Friday.
Suppose I were to tell you that in Durham County neighborhoods with the following characteristics — a lower percentage of white individuals, “lower economic and racial spatial advantage,” “higher area deprivation,” “higher reported violent crimes, evictions, poverty, unemployment, uninsurance, and child care center density, as well as lower election participation, income, and education” — that there is also a higher incidence of three chronic diseases. What...
Though polarization is a pervasive and powerful force in our politics, housing policy is one area where cross-ideological coalitions have become increasingly common. For example, there are both progressive and conservative champions of zoning reforms and other deregulatory efforts to allow more construction of new houses and apartments, including denser forms of development. Opponents of...
