Utilities commissioners: power-rate loophole is anti-consumer
A state law that allows Duke Energy to file rate
Health Care
Plymouth hospital endorses nurse-practice bills
A coastal hospital has joined the groups advocating for a relaxation of the state’s restrictions on advanced-practice nurses. Washington Regional Medical Center has joined a
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 costs associated with a leading...
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...
Budget & Taxes
Pew frets about state reserves
North Carolina’s primary rainy-day fund had $3.6 billion as of last summer, which would fund about 42 days’ worth of state spending, a drop-off in
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 gives them an exemption from...
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...
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
Ferguson set to replace Clampitt in House
Republican leaders in Jackson, Swain and Transylvania counties have picked Anna Ferguson to fill out the balance of the late Rep. Mike Clampitt’s term in
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 Senate: No more casinos. “Voter...
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...