Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio Last month, Canadian scholars Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva were preparing to travel as part of a routine and time-worn activity for academic authors: giving a book talk at an event in Washington, D.C. In their case, the book is: “The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American […]
Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A series of new river gauges providing real-time water levels went online just days before Helene and is credited with saving lives along the Pigeon. It is now being expanded even more, including new gauges in Waynesville and Maggie Valley, which also saw flooding this time around. “Those river gauges were […]
WFDD Radio By now, many economists are hoarse screaming that higher tariffs and a trade war will raise prices and hurt the U.S. economy. But many Americans aren’t listening. A recent poll by Quinnipiac University, conducted in late January, found that 42% of Americans believe tariffs will help the U.S. economy. The United States’ recent […]
Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro UNC-Chapel Hill is suspending part of its mandatory curriculum around diversity to avoid any potential noncompliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order scrubbing the federal government’s recognition and participation in such efforts. UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts and Provost Chris Clemens shared a message with the campus community Monday evening, saying the compliance […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily A coastal town in Brunswick County is facing the budget crunch, prompting its city manager to propose a “shared sacrifice strategy” to shore up hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of next fiscal year. After less than a year in the job, Southport City Manager Stuart Turille Jr. was tasked with […]
Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Amid a flurry of post-inaugural executive orders that look to halt, eliminate or place conditions on certain swaths of federal funding, Sandhills Community College Trustee Steve Woodward, last week, outlined a series of presidential efforts he said could potentially affect the college. Woodward’s presentation to his fellow trustees was not […]
Monday’s meeting of Gov. Stein’s hurricane-recovery panel also yielded new information about the state’s intended approach to using about $1.4 billion that will be coming its way from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The “action plan” Stein’s aides are drafting for the use of Helene-related CDBG disaster recovery grants would allocate $807 […]
Novo Nordisk finds itself the target of at least one shareholder lawsuit over disappointing clinical-trial results for a new weight-loss drug. The trial of CagriSema “achieved a superior weight loss of 22.7% after 68 weeks” compared to a couple of alternatives, the company said in a Dec. 20 news release. Trouble was, investors were expecting […]
Senate Deputy President Pro Tem Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell, confirmed Monday that his chamber will draft its own next-steps hurricane relief bill instead of merely adopting the one the House is working on. Speaking to Gov. Josh Stein’s advisory panel on Helene recovery on Monday, Hise said he believes the Senate will roll out its version […]
Gov. Josh Stein and House leaders both are proposing to spend money to repair two state prisons in western North Carolina closed after Hurricane Helene, but the situation’s not as simple as either suggests. The Department of Adult Correction had to evacuate five prisons after Helene because they lacked power, water and sewer service, department […]
Senate Rules chair Bill Rabon, R-Brunswick, and 11 of his GOP caucus colleagues have put forward a plan to reorganize the Division of Motor Vehicles. Rabon’s Senate Bill 63 would set up a new Board of Motor Vehicles to supervise DMV, supplanting existing law that puts the division under the state transportation secretary. The new […]
Here at the Trib and Business North Carolina, we’ve been puzzling over the 2025 State Medical Facilities Plan and its 156% increase in the number of acute-care hospital bed it says North Carolina needs. Suffice to say that’s a huge one-year jump, to 1,042 additional beds, 635 more than in the 2024 plan. Just the […]
Will Atwater/NC Health News Well before Helene’s floodwaters reached western North Carolina, an overwhelmed U.S. insurance market was already dropping coverage in places that are prone to disaster — and even in towns and cities that aren’t. But as the number and intensity of natural disasters increase, the insurance industry will pass on the financial […]
WCHL Chapelboro UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts joined 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck on Friday, Jan. 31 for a wide-ranging interview checking in as the university’s spring semester got started. The pair discussed some of the biggest news from the federal government as President Donald Trump began his second term with a flurry of executive orders […]
Reems Landreth/WCNC News North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has fined UnitedHealthcare $3.4 million for violations in claims handling practices involving balance billing, the state Department of Insurance announced last week. The fine stems from a four-year investigation that revealed UnitedHealthcare failed to protect members from unexpected out-of-network charges, particularly in emergency room and anesthesia […]
