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Read the official alertReporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Wilmington International Airport’s $130 million expansion project, helping take a facility originally built to handle 200,000 passengers annually to welcoming 1.8 million today, is getting a $3 million assist from a federal Airport Improvement Program grant.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Five weeks away from Election Day and just more than three into a 61-day window of ballots being cast, the Senate Leadership Fund in a new ad campaign says law enforcement backs Republican Michael Whatley against Democrat Roy Cooper for U.S. Senate in North Carolina.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Checking citizenship through the federal SAVE database has been welcomed by the executive director of the State Board of Elections in North Carolina.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Younger voters and Black voters, says AARP, help give Democrat Roy Cooper a 53%-42% lead over Republican Michael Whatley in polling for North Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat in the 2026 midterms.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Unleaded gasoline prices are up only a tick in North Carolina over last week while diesel prices are down 10 cents, according to Monday’s update from AAA.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Voter registrations for Democrats in North Carolina were the largest percentage since before the March 3 primaries, according to Saturday’s weekly seven-day update from the State Board of Elections and analysis by The Center Square.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – With apologies to Mark Twain, the reported campaign death of Republican Michael Whatley from lack of ongoing cash from the National Republican Senatorial Committee was an exaggeration.
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(The Center Square) – James Comey, former FBI director in hot water for a social media post of seashells spelling out 86 47 on a North Carolina beach, will not face arraignment next week in New Bern.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – On the two-year anniversary of North Carolina’s worst natural disaster, GROW NC has introduced a framework for rebuilding the economy of mountain regions where Hurricane Helene killed 108 and delivered an estimated $80 billion in damage.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – N.C. State, largest institution in the University of North Carolina System and no stranger to public black eyes, has another with the felony indictments handed down by a grand jury against an athletics trainer also sued by 32 former athletes.
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