Port City Daily The New Hanover Community Endowment announced Monday that Executive Vice President of Programs and Operations Lakesha McDay has submitted her resignation. “I am proud of the role I served as part of the inaugural years at the Endowment,” McDay said in a press release. A reason for her departure was not divulged. […]
Elena Marsh/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Carthage is seeking to appoint new volunteers to the Historic Preservation Commission following the resignation of two members. That is, presuming the town doesn’t disband the new board in the coming weeks. The commission, formed earlier this year, has not been well-favored by some residents of Carthage’s downtown. Some have […]
Will Hofmann/Asheville Citizen Times Geotechnical drilling operations for preliminary work on the Interstate 26 Connector project will begin along the French Broad River between the Jeff Bowen Bridge and Pearson Road Bridge next week, the North Carolina Department of Transportation announced Sept. 23. Work on two 9-foot-wide platforms will begin Sept. 30 and the platforms […]
Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro After more than a decade of trying to work together on a solution to the coal ash at 828 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the Town of Chapel Hill and state government are close to finalizing a deal on remediation and development. A final step in the process, though, was holding a […]
Vicki Hyatt/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A heated and personal exchange between the Haywood County commission chairman and a Pathways critic became public at Monday’s board meeting when Waynesville resident Erich Overhultz read a text message sent to all board members as well as the texts from the sole respondent, Kevin Ensley. The exchange centered on the […]
The North Carolina Utilities Commission mishandled Duke Energy’s application for solar-energy rates in 2023, but its decision was well-grounded enough that it can stand, the state’s Court of Appeals says. The 3-0 court ruling is drawing fire from pro-solar advocacy groups such as NC WARN, whose leader, Jim Warren, says Judge Hunter Murphy and his […]
Court of Appeals judges also waded into a certificate-of-need dispute between UNC Health and Duke Health, invalidating an administrative law judge’s decision in the matter and sending it back down for further review. The 3-0 ruling didn’t turn on the substance of the quarrel between the two health systems, but on a procedural issue: Whether […]
Paul Specht & Jack Hagel/WRAL News North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson rejected multiple offers from supporters to connect him with information technology specialists to help the Republican gubernatorial nominee investigate racist and lewd comments on a pornographic website made by someone with a username that CNN tied to Robinson, people directly familiar with the […]
Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger Rebecca Smith, a breast cancer survivor, didn’t think much about it in 2018 when Novant Health bought Lake Norman Oncology, the practice in Mooresville where she had regular checkups with her cancer doctor. Then Smith, 51, received a medical bill that left her stunned. Instead of the […]
Liz Bell/Education NC Since the start of July — right after the legislature approved state money to replace federal child care funding as it expired — the state has had a net loss of 69 licensed child care programs. That’s almost double the state’s net loss over the previous three months, from April to June. […]
Jonathan Bym/The (Southern Pines) Pilot The Moore County Planning and Zoning Board has recommended the Board of Commissioners reject plans for a high-end motorsports park in northern Moore County. Thursday night’s hearing was a colorful one, in that a number of attendees boasted either red “stop” stickers or green “go” stickers for their views of […]
Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online The federal agency that identifies offshore wind energy areas is in the early stages of siting another possible commercial lease sale for the East Coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held an open house last week at the Crystal Coast Civic Center in Morehead City, the first in the multiyear, […]
Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio An “unnecessary” medical process is doubling costs for some rural hospital patients and adding to emergency room overcrowding at Asheville’s Mission Hospital, according to a lawsuit moved to federal court this month. Buncombe County government leaders initially filed the lawsuit against health care giant HCA – Mission’s owner – […]
Aidan Lockhart/The Daily Tar Heel The School of Civic Life and Leadership, which is offering classes for the first time this semester, has undergone significant faculty turnover since its inception. The nine inaugural faculty members of the school were announced in an email by Jim White, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, in […]
Olivia Neeley/The Wilson Times Wilson Medical Center’s interim CEO is anticipating another immediate jeopardy status from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services following an August visit for a complaint investigation at the facility. Lindy White said the hospital took immediate corrective action following a weeklong unannounced visit from the N.C. Department of Health and […]
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