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11+ min ago  (380+ words) The newly signed state budget effectively eliminates the vehicle emissions inspection requirement in North Carolina, pending EPA approval. These changes, however, cannot take effect until the EPA approves North Carolina's revised Air Quality plan submitted by NCDEQ in Oct 2024, according…...

7+ hour, 49+ min ago  (457+ words) Plans for a nearly $20 B data center campus in North Carolina are on ice as local lawmakers consider a development moratorium." Energy Storage Solutions has withdrawn its offer to buy the 28 acres for the project inside a massive shovel-ready site…...

9+ hour, 16+ min ago  (617+ words) Interim Chief Brandon Ditto will be leading the Salem Police Department until at least November following the retirement of Chief Trevor Womack. Ditto, who previously worked as assistant chief and has been with the department for 21 years, said he wants…...

3+ hour, 12+ min ago  (681+ words) A widespread Spectrum outage left large parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks, including Nags Head and Ocracoke Island, without internet on Wednesday morning, with the company's outage map showing restoration was not expected until around 10 a. m. local time. According to Spectrum's…...

3+ hour, 33+ min ago  (663+ words) North Carolina's new state budget grants the biggest request from a bipartisan task force on child care: more money for the state's child care subsidy program, including a first-ever statewide floor on what providers get paid. The spending plan "passedby…...

11+ hour, 32+ min ago  (66+ words) City leaders are asking the Fayetteville School District to contribute up to $15 million toward construction of a new aquatic center after updated estimates put the project above its voter-approved bond funding City leaders are asking the Fayetteville School District to…...

20+ min ago  (797+ words) Lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk are expected to keep questioning the reliability of DNA testing that prosecutors said links the defendant to the suspected murder weapon when a weeklong hearing continues Wednesday. A member…...

3+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1115+ words) Denmark on Wednesday vowed to defend its territory after President Donald Trump insisted again that the United States should control Greenland, upending a NATO summit in Turkey meant to be a show of strength and unity. Denmark's Prime Minister Mette…...

7+ hour, 54+ min ago  (370+ words) Lisa Fickenscher writes for the New York Post about the city's mayor trying to sell an unpopular socialist idea. The Mamdani administration is scrambling to ease concerns about its plans to open government-owned supermarkets " but recent talks have instead raised…...

8+ hour ago  (342+ words) Brianna Lyman writes for the Federalist about President Donald Trump's July 4 message to Americans. President Donald Trump delivered a historic speech commemorating America's 250th birthday at Mount Rushmore on Friday, giving a stark warning about the country's future: If we are…...