When I was five, he was 79, but that didn’t stop my grandfather. On the clear, crisp, fall, coastal North Carolina mornings, he would pick me up in his old blue pickup to go deer hunting. I was too young to know the exact circumstances. Maybe mom needed a babysitter those days, or maybe grandpa...
While electric vehicle industry is growing in NC, the trajectory of the EV sector appears uncertain. Industry giants like Ford, General Motors, and Tesla have collectively opted to delay their expansion plans in the year 2024 amid big losses in Q3.
Credit where credit is due: Gov. Roy Cooper scored a major win in his recent travels to Japan, securing a deal with Toyota to build one of the largest electric-vehicle battery plants in the world. The Japanese auto giant had already planned on investing $6 billion to build EV batteries in the Triad area, creating...
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals will decide in the weeks or months ahead whether to uphold a lower court’s ruling favoring pro basketball star Zion Williamson over his former sports marketing agency. A three-judge appellate panel heard oral arguments in the case Tuesday.
Vinfast issued an earnings report for the second quarter of 2023 on Thursday, and the news is not good for the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker.
VinFast, the electric vehicle maker with plans to open a $4 billion manufacturing plant in Chatham County in 2025, has sold 11,300 vehicles during the first half of 2023. While that would usually be good news, here’s the kicker: more than half, 7,100, were sold to itself.
budget negotiations are stalled as House and Senate lawmakers are too far apart to reach a deal. Reportedly, there will not be a budget agreement until likely September, following what had initially been a June 30 deadline. Here's why:
A tectonic shift in N.C. politics happened this week as Mecklenburg County Democrat state House Rep. Tricia Cotham announced that she was switching parties and becoming a Republican. In other years, this might not be such a huge deal. But with a supermajority in the state Senate for Republicans and a state House that was...
On Wednesday morning, Republican leaders announced that Rep. Tricia Cotham, a longtime Democrat from Mecklenburg County, is joining the North Carolina Republican Party.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) removed two members of the Surry County Board of Elections for refusing to certify the 2022 general election. Tim DeHaan and Jerry Forestieri, the two Republican members of the board, gave their reasons for doing so in a letter to the rest of the board. They explained...
Statewide, a third of North Carolina’s school board seats were on the ballot Tuesday. Republicans had a rough night in many urban races, but in New Hanover County, home of coastal city Wilmington, Republicans swept all four seats on the board of education. The board had been 5-2 Democrat, but after the election will now...
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