Start your week in North Carolina politics with our latest Under the Dome podcast, for the week of Feb. 17, 2025. Dawn Vaughan here, your podcast host and The News & Observer’s Capitol bureau chief.

RALEIGH, NC (WWAY) — The North Carolina Department of Labor has released the state’s first “Elevator Index,” a new metric designed to measure economic growth by tracking elevator-related activity ...

Good morning and welcome to the Under the Dome newsletter. I’m Emily Vespa. Soon, when you step into an elevator in North Carolina, a new face will greet you: Labor Commissioner Luke Farley. The head ...

In his first year in office, NC Labor Commissioner Luke Farley eliminated nagging backlog of uninspected elevators. Now he's turning his attention to a rise in workplace deaths. In his first year in ...

Vertical transport reinvented the city. Now, engineers are looking sideways and digitally to create a new kind of interconnected urban area.