The company is giving 100 grants worth $20,000 each to businesses in disaster-declared communities to meet urgent needs like payroll, rent, or replacing equipment or tools.
The three-day tour will feature Trump campaign surrogates visiting locations from Alamance to Wayne counties. The campaign of former president Donald Trump announced a traveling bus tour in the critical battleground state of North Carolina, beginning Wednesday in Burlington, concluding with a Friday visit in Goldsboro. After kicking off in Burlington, the bus tour will...
A federal report finds that the cost incurred to move a single passenger one mile is $18.71 on the Charlotte’s Gold Line streetcar. This comes in addition to logistical problems faced by CATS Gold Line rail over the past three years.
Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, at least 50 individuals have been prosecuted for pandemic relief fraud in N.C., totaling up to nearly $40 million in COVID-19 relief fraud. The most recent North Carolinian to be federally charged is Steven Andiloro, 51, from Mooresville.
Rep. John R. Bradford III, R-Mecklenburg, made it official Thursday by announcing his run for the state treasurer’s office.
A North Carolina representative announced today that he is considering a run for the state treasurer’s office. John R. Bradford III, R-Mecklenburg, said elected officials, lobbyists, and business owners were among those over the past few months that encouraged him to think about running after it was mentioned to him that Republican N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s may announce his own run for governor.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is investigating a North Carolina-based solar panel company after leaving customers with thousands of dollars of malfunctioning equipment.
President Biden is expected to announce Thursday, July 29, that all federal employees must be vaccinated or submit to rigorous COVID testing. That would include members of the military. The White House Office and Management already announced an employee mask mandate in all federal buildings. The announcement would come the same day that Gov. Roy...
Like many gym owners in North Carolina, Neil Strother and his wife, Ann, just want to reopen their Wilson business, Victory Fitness. The couple tried to do so Memorial Day weekend, after Gov. Roy Cooper announced fitness centers would stay closed through Phase Two of his COVID-19 reopening plan. Gyms, along with private bars and...
Keeping the lights on. That’s the popular theme, for businesses — small and large — throughout the country. Throughout North Carolina. “Our No. 1 aim,” says Stuart Arnold, president of Fortnight Brewing Co. in Cary. Arnold was sitting in the brewery’s dark taproom, devoid of customers. Several workers, headed inside and out, passed him as...
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review: ReConnect pilot program: Columbus County will get a $7.9 million ReConnect Pilot Program grant to help expand high-speed internet. Gov. Roy Cooper...
