The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the final portion of a lawsuit Lumberton residents filed against CSX Transportation over flood damage from Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. It’s the second time federal appellate judges have addressed the dispute.
The Heritage Foundation's co-founder spoke with Carolina Journal in 2006 about his book designed to promote "true conservative values."
The North Carolina Court of Appeals will allow the town of Dobbins Heights to proceed with a lawsuit attempting to block a charcoal production facility near the town’s limits. Wednesday’s Appeals Court ruling reverses a trial judge’s decision in the dispute.
The North Carolina Railroad Company (NCRR) announced last week the launch of an economic development program company executives say will ease the path to further economic growth by boosting industrial site readiness along the 317-mile rail corridor. The aim of the Options Program is to preserve land for future industrial users and strengthen North Carolina’s...
Additional cargo shipments are headed to North Carolina’s coast this month amid the ongoing Baltimore Port closure, North Carolina Ports has disclosed.
The Port of Wilmington received good news last month with the announcement that it will receive over $18 million from a federal grant for rail infrastructure upgrades. The funding, distributed through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program, will help build a new intermodal facility at the port—cutting down on truck trips and enhancing...
State senators fear a new Megaproject Fund could erode a key 2013 transportation reform.
Roughly two hours after Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addressed an early voting event in Greenville, Republican nominee Donald Trump led a rally in Selma on property that had been slated to become a state-subsidized rail shipping hub for CSX. (After significant local opposition, the transit hub will be located near Rocky Mount.) Before thousands of...
The Carolina Connector, a $272 million Edgecombe County transit hub for CSX railroad, would receive taxpayer subsidies from the state of North Carolina of at least $700,000 for each of the 149 jobs the rail project is projected to create — for jobs that are expected to pay an average of $64,000 per year. That’s...
Months after the N.C. Department of Transportation approved a $100 million subsidy for CSX to build an intermodal rail terminal in Johnston County near Selma, the railroad — amid local opposition at every North Carolina location CSX has considered — says it continues looking for sites in North Carolina and other states. CSX approached the...
As concerns over the potential use of eminent domain have clouded a proposed CSX rail hub in Johnston County, the libertarian public-interest law firm Institute for Justice reports of a victory in January for several private property owners in Mount Airy whose land had been targeted for condemnation by a city redevelopment entity. The Spencer’s property, an abandoned...
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