Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Photo: Ashley Mahoney/Axios
✈️ Charlotte Douglas International Airport is discontinuing its direct flights to Tulum, Mexico, starting Feb. 13. (CBJ🔒) CLT began the international service last year.
🏰 A castle-like home in the Blue Ridge Mountains recently sold for $15.85 million, setting a state record. Thomas Rouse, co-founder of the Texas medical device company Berkshire Biomedical, and his wife Sandra built the Banner Elk house around 2008. (WSJ)
🗳️ In North Carolina's first general election under the state's new photo ID requirement, 1,670 voters had their ballots rejected because they didn't have a photo ID or properly fill out an exception form. (WFAE)
🛻 RXO, a freight transportation company headquartered in Ballantyne, will expand its local operations and 216 jobs over the next several years, according to a press release from the governor's office.
RXO was offered state incentives totaling just under $2.5 million for the project. Charlotte and Mecklenburg County are expected to offer incentives worth approximately $400,000 combined. (CBJ)
