WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines launched a campaign to fight childhood obesity on Tuesday, including partnerships among organizations across the city, workshops, an exercise DVD and an interactive website that includes, among other things, talking vegetables and a video of the mayor doing pushups.
The Educational Childhood Obesity Prevention Program links the Gateway YWCA, […]
Chapel Hill’s cell-phone debate got put on hold Monday night when a proposed ban on calls while driving fell two votes short.
To pass on a first reading, the ban needed six votes. The council deadlocked 4-4, with member Ed Harrison absent because he was representing the town at a regional transit meeting.
The issue will come […]
U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers has introduced legislation that would prevent officials from installing tolls along I-95. Ellmers said the bill “No Tolls in North Carolina Act of 2012” prevents the Federal Highway Administration from approving a pilot program that would add tolls on the interstate highway in order to pay for its expansion.
“While our highways […]
A divided three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals has struck down North Carolina’s ban on video sweepstakes games.
The judges, in a ruling issued today, said the state legislature has the authority to regulate games of chance. But the way the 2010 law was written, they said, only deals with how the results of […]
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Sixty educators from across the nation roamed the halls and ringed the rooms of East Mooresville Intermediate School, searching for the secret formula. They found it in Erin Holsinger’s fifth-grade math class.
There, a boy peering into his school-issued MacBook blitzed through fractions by himself, determined to reach sixth-grade work by winter. […]
State Department of Transportation engineers are crafting a plan to toll Interstate 95 that would allow local drivers to take short trips on the road while preventing others from dodging tolls. The department hopes to catch the one in five drivers it estimates pass through North Carolina without ever stopping. They don’t buy gas or […]
The state’s budget troubles haven’t prevented the N.C. State Ports Authority Board of Directors from hosting several lavish dinners in the past year. The board’s latest dinner was held last month at Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar in Charlotte, on the night before the board’s meeting in the Queen City. The Ports Authority spent […]
As the details of a landmark overhaul to North Carolina’s criminal justice system come into focus, prosecutors and defense attorneys have blasted certain elements of the law, contending they sacrifice public safety to save money, among other concerns.
In the past few months, courthouses, probation offices and prisons have been trying to bring their staffs […]
Replanting is one of three options billboard companies have as reimbursement for cutting down trees. Companies also can remove two billboards anywhere in the state that are not in compliance, or they can reimburse the state financially.
Not only will billboard companies be able to cut down many more trees than they could before a new […]
Revisions to a state law passed last year regarding tree-cutting around roadside billboards has environmental groups and the outdoor advertising industry at odds once again, and motorists traveling Interstate 26 in Henderson County can now see evidence of where the controversy exists.
Last week the state’s Rules Review Commission approved by a 5-3 vote “temporary rules” […]
