UNC Chapel Hill: We’re not investigating students
UNC Chapel Hill officials have walked back a vice provost’s
Health Care
Legislators urged to tighten autism-care networks
North Carolina’s four managed care organizations say state legislators have to change the law if they want to get a handle on the exploding Medicaid
FirstHealth sees losses ahead early in 2030s
Executives from Pinehurst-based FirstHealth say the federal government’s One Big Beautiful Bill has put the hospital system on a course that could lead to operating losses by fiscal 2031-32. “We...
UNC ups nurse production; legislators unsatisfied
The UNC System says its universities are on track to produce 707 more nurses a year by the 2029-30 school year. Trouble is, that doesn’t fill the 12,459-nurse gap in...
Budget & Taxes
Stein calls for changes to data-center tax incentive
Gov. Josh Stein wants legislators to consider modifying or repealing a 20-year-old tax break North Carolina gives the operators of some data centers. Existing law
Treasurer: Rocky Mount on “extremely short leash” over finances
Local Government Commission members say Rocky Mount’s financial troubles stem from a bad culture that started at the top, with the city’s elected officials. They agreed Wednesday to warn the...
LGC to scrutinize Rocky Mount, Littleton
Local Government Commission members intended to grill officials from Rocky Mount and Littleton Wednesday afternoon on why they haven’t been able to get their municipal finances in order. The situation...
Education
UNC Chapel Hill: We’re not investigating students
UNC Chapel Hill officials have walked back a vice provost’s statement that they’re investigating the student group Hill After Hours over a video lampooning attitudes
UNC workforce report sees big gap in engineering-grad numbers
North Carolina’s public universities mint lots of new engineers every year, but a UNC System analysis says they’re still not turning out enough. But that doesn’t exactly make engineering unique....
Carolina’s getting FIREd
UNC Chapel Hill is in trouble with one of the country’s top free-speech advocacy groups. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression — more popularly known as FIRE — wants...
Elections
Luddy warns senators to oppose casinos
One of the key backers of Rockingham County Sheriff’s successful bid to unseat Senate leader Phil Berger has a message for the rest of the
Drive safe while campaigning?
A traffic-safety group wants everyone running for a General Assembly seat this fall to pledge to practice safe-driving habits as they campaign. That means wearing a speed belt, obeying speed...
Garson set to replace Meyer in Senate
Democratic leaders from Orange, Person and Caswell counties have picked Jonah Garson to replace former District 23 state Sen. Graig Meyer, D-Orange. Garson, up to now the first vice chair of...