John Staton/Wilmington StarNews Wilmington lost another historic building last month when the former home of longtime newspaper The Wilmington Journal, a landmark in the Black community, was torn down. Located at 412 S. Seventh St. downtown, the building dated to 1903 and for most of last century served as the home of one of North […]
Trey Nemec/CityView The Spring Lake Board of Commissioners held a strategic policy planning session Wednesday night, collaborating with town department representatives to create a blueprint for the next phases of the town’s development. The meeting was focused on identifying key priorities for the future as the board works to refine its goals for the coming […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press When was the last time you knew the full cost of a medical procedure before going under? Hospital price transparency has been enforced by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare since 2021, but whether the law is functioning as intended is a topic of heated debate. A new report from […]
Phil Galewitz/KFF Health News With Donald Trump’s return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is back on the chopping block. More than 3 million adults in nine states would be at immediate risk of losing their health coverage should the GOP reduce […]
Jacob Biba/Asheville Citizen Times When Tropical Storm Helene swept through Western North Carolina in September, the storm’s torrential rains triggered massive floods and landslides that tore through thousands of miles of the region’s roads and bridges. Highways collapsed into rivers, bridges and culverts washed out, and roadways, covered in mounds of mud and debris, limited […]
Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Marian Spicer, 72, was treated for a kidney stone at Duke Health in late October. During the procedure, the doctor accidentally tore her bladder, and she didn’t get out of the hospital until early November. The pain of the experience was compounded by stress over the possibility of losing her insurance […]
Tiana Kennell/Asheville Citizen Times An East Asheville seafood restaurant known for its oysters, burgers, and global fusion plates will not reopen following Tropical Storm Helene. On Dec. 7, Little Pearl’s social media post announced the restaurant’s closure after four years. “To all our dear friends, followers & loyal customers, for a magnitude of reasons following […]
Coastal Review Online The state agency “dedicated to the conservation and wise management of fish and wildlife, and the regulation of inland fishing, hunting, trapping and boating regulations” will be under new leadership effective Jan. 1, 2025. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission announced Thursday after its commissioners’ business meeting that Michael Kyle Briggs had […]
Ben Humphries/Education NC School boards have been thrust into the spotlight over the past few years by livestreamed board meetings, book banning controversies, and “parental rights” movements. They are also increasingly partisan — literally. This November, 52 school districts in North Carolina held partisan elections, where candidates’ party affiliations are listed on the ballot, versus […]
Lora Lavigne/WRAL News Plans for a multi-million-dollar training facility for the Durham County Sheriff’s Office is getting pushback. A recently organized group called “Durham Stop Cop City” is hoping to block plans to renovate the training facility for the sheriff’s office. Dozens of people gathered at Forest Hills Park in Durham Sunday afternoon to speak […]
Robert Sullivan/The Salisbury Post Ever Home Plastics will be creating its first U.S.-based facility in Rowan County, a move that will bring a planned $3.65 million investment and approximately 46 new jobs to the area over the next four years. The Rowan EDC announced on Thursday that the company, which is a subsidiary of Vacane […]
Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice Back in January 2024, the Outer Banks Community Foundation (OBCF) began a process of examining its role in disaster preparedness. Knowing that its primary post-disaster role is as fundraisers and grant makers, the focus, as President and CEO Chris Sawin notes, was “on how to leverage social media to engage with […]
President Joe Biden has agreed the federal government will cover 90% of the cost of public assistance, hazard mitigation, and “other needs assistance” for North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene. That’s in lieu of the 75% federal reimbursement already approved and Gov. Roy Cooper said is more typical. The added money “will allow for state […]
Obviously, the suspense this week is all about whether House Republicans will be able to muster the necessary three-fifths majority of those present and voting on Wednesday to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 382. This is the measure — styled as the “Disaster Recovery Act of 2024, Part III” — that actually […]
N.C. Medical Society officials posted and then un-posted a statement about the shooting death of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson that drew Twitter criticism from a former staffer for state Senate leader Phil Berger. Attributed to Medical Society CEO Chip Baggett, the statement said the group believes “violence is never a solution” and that “words and […]
