WAKE COUNTY, North Carolina — When Josahandy Avila thinks about the 2024 presidential election, the word “excitement” does not come to mind. As a first-generation Mexican American, her family is directly affected by state and federal immigration laws, and she’s concerned about reproductive rights. But at the presidential level, she’s still undecided — she is […]
Novant Health is laying off 171 employees in the Carolinas, with more than half in the Charlotte region. The health care company’s layoffs effect 90 workers at 6237 Carolina Commons Drive in Indian Land, S.C., just south of Charlotte, and 81 employees at 101 N. Cherry St. in Winston-Salem, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s contentious restrictions on public mask-wearing became law on Thursday after GOP lawmakers successfully overrode a veto by the state’s Democratic governor. The Senate gave its final stamp of approval in a 30-13 override vote along party lines. The state House initiated the process Wednesday when it voted to override […]
A Midwest chicken chain is expanding into the Southeast, looking to ruffle some feathers as it heads to Bojangles hometown of Charlotte and elsewhere in the Carolinas. Chick N Max, based in Wichita, Kansas, plans to open eight to 10 restaurants with about 250 employees in the Charlotte metro area over the next few years, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina will hold runoff elections on Tuesday to decide a handful of races in which no candidate received a majority of the vote in the primary held just two weeks earlier. In the 3rd Congressional District, a candidate backed by former President Donald Trump faces off against the preferred candidate of […]
The headline of a June 19, 1983, article in the StarNews showed one party’s popularity in Brunswick County: “10 Democrats trying for sheriff’s job in Brunswick.” Each of the 10 men looked to fill the unexpired term of the Democratic sheriff who had been forced to resign after he was convicted on five counts of […]
RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — Another house has collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean along North Carolina’s coast, the sixth to fall along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s beaches in the past four years, according to U.S. National Park Service officials. About one mile of the beach along Ocean Drive in Rodanthe on the Outer Banks was […]
Before Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s GOP candidate for governor, even stepped on stage at the state party’s convention Saturday, several state candidates took time in their own speeches to energize the crowd by vouching for Robinson’s gubernatorial bid. When the state’s lieutenant governor did take to the stage more than an hour and a half […]
North Carolina has been an underappreciated political battleground recently and not gotten the same attention as nearby Georgia or Florida or the traditional campaign hotbeds of the Rust Belt. That is changing in 2024, partly because of a potentially historic governor’s race that pits North Carolina’s centrist tendencies against the rise of populist conservatism in […]
Former President Donald Trump endorsed Brad Knott on Friday night in the Republican runoff election to represent an area in and around the Triangle in Congress. “Brad Knott has my Complete and Total Endorsement,” Trump wrote on his social media network, Truth Social. “He will never let you down!” Knott, a former federal prosecutor, faces […]
According to the new book “Clean Economy Now,” North Carolina and South Carolina are seeing tens of billions in capital investments to kickstart projects in the state, which should bring thousands of jobs to the states. With nearly 300 major manufacturing projects announced nationwide in the year and a half following the passage of the […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov, Henry McMaster held a ceremony Tuesday to spotlight a new law allowing any adult who can legally own a gun to carry the weapon openly without a permit. McMaster signed the bill into law 12 days ago as soon as it hit his desk, allowing open carry before […]