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Black Mountain Blues festival features 46 acts on eight stages
The inaugural Black Mountain Blues music festival will debut July 12-14 with three days of blues music, cultural enrichment and community engagement. The music festival will feature nearly four dozen performances at eight venues. A curated Food, Arts & Wellness Market in downtown Black Mountain will also be part of the experience.
Asheville will need 14,000 new homes by 2050 to keep pace with population growth, Affordable Housing draft projects
Asheville’s population will continue to boom over the next 25 years — and with it, the need for more housing is expected to become even more urgent. That’s the message City Council members heard in a recent presentation on Asheville’s latest Affordable Housing Plan, which is being finalized and will be released to the public later this month.
Cooper vetoes two bills, signs vape regulations & conservation tax credit
Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday vetoed a pair of bills that would have allowed certain off-road vehicles on North Carolina highways and curbed local governments’ involvement in rental disputes. Cooper signed four other bills into law, including an agriculture bill that contains tax credits for conservation efforts and new regulations on vaping products. House Bill […] The post Cooper vetoes two bills, signs vape regulations & conservation tax credit appeared first on NC Newsline.
9 stores pay fines for overcharging customers, officials say
RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Standards Division collected fines from nine different stores in several counties for price scanning errors. (Video above: WYFF News 4 Morning Headlines) The stores that the NCDOA is collecting fines from are in Alamance, Forsyth, Hertford, Mecklenburg,...
Red, white, and brown? Lawn tips for a hot and dry July Fourth
How droughts are changing lawncare and soil guidance, products. More than half of North Carolina, including Wake County, is currently under moderate drought conditions. Crops are cooking and lawns across the state are browning, as July Fourth backyard barbeques get underway. Grady Miller, a turfgrass management specialist and professor at...
North Carolina's Latino population is growing — but not its recent voter turnout
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 leaning toward President Joe Biden but is potentially open to a third-party ticket.
Digital driver's licenses to come to NC next July
RALEIGH, N.C. — Governor Roy Cooper signed House Bill 199 into law, allowing North Carolinians the option for digital driver's licenses starting July 2025. From Apple Pay to Google Pay, many of us also use our phones to keep up with things like concert tickets, airplane tickets, and even car insurance cards, but soon, that will include your driver's license.
Charlotte the Stingray, Believed to be Pregnant Without a Mate, Has Died
NATIONAL (WDNews) – Charlotte the Stingray, who went viral for supposedly becoming pregnant despite having no male stingrays in her enclosure, has died. An aquarium near Asheville, North Carolina drew national attention when they revealed in February that one of their resident stingrays had become pregnant despite not having any male stingrays in her enclosure.
City council candidates sound off on property tax increase
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Asheville City Council candidates in this November’s election are split on the recent tax increase, with three in favor of the new budget and three against. On the same night the council voted to approve the controversial Business Improvement District, or BID, it approved...
No, it wasn't a comet, it was SpaceX's Falcon 9 flying through the Triangle
A rocket that launched in Florida early Wednesday morning was seen in the sky over North Carolina.ABC11 viewers from around the Triangle shared videos they captured of the rocket streaking across the sky. Many of you asked-what was that?SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was seen in North Carolina after its early morning launch at Cape Canaveral.What was that?It was not a comet but a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.The liftoff happened at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station around 4:55 a.m. on Wednesday, July 3, according to SpaceX.The rocket was carrying 20 Starlink satellites, which include 13 with direct cell capabilities. These satellites act as cellphone towers in space, eliminating dead zones without phone modifications or special apps, the company said.Click on Space X to watch the launchThis marks the 67th Falcon 9 mission of 2024 already.Thank you for sharing your videos and photos with ABC11!WATCH | Mysterious objects found in North Carolina mountains were part of SpaceX spacecraftThe two mysterious objects were found 40 miles apart in the North Carolina mountains in late May.
PCC president awarded Trailblazer Award by American Council on education
On Friday, June 14, at the closing ceremony for the North Carolina Chapter of the American Council on Education (ACE) Women’s Network conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, Dr. Pamela G. Senegal, President of Piedmont Community College (PCC) was awarded the organization’s Trailblazer Award for 2024. “The Trailblazer Award...
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