UNC’s Board of Governors has ratified a new campus-protest policy that requires protest organizers to give administrators at their campus 24 hours’ notice if they gather indoors or in designated outdoor areas. The notice requirement applies to anything other than “university sponsored instruction, classes or research,” and to any group larger than a size set […]
A proposal to restrict corporate purchases of single-family housing that surfaced and got quickly pigeonholed in the House in 2023 has resurfaced in the Senate in 2025. Introduced by Sen. Tim Moffitt, R-Henderson, and co-sponsored by Sen. Lisa Grafstein, D-Wake, Senate Bill 199 targets what it calls “home ownership market manipulation.” It would bar anyone […]
Medical providers have filed new certificate-of-need applications that could result in almost $772 million of capital spending if all their projects get approved by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. Four projects out of the 27 would account for the bulk of the cost: Novant Health wants to build a 50-bed acute-care hospital in […]
North Carolina’s continued growth spree is making even couple-year-old projections of future power-generation needs obsolete, Duke Energy executives recently told members of a House committee. Their presentation to the House Energy and Public Utilities committee included one scenario that indicated demand for generating capacity could approach 42 gigawatts by 2038. Duke fall 2023 demand estimates […]
Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Guilford County is conducting a countywide property revaluation of all real property in the county, and, right now, it looks like housing prices in Guilford County will come in, on average, about 50 percent higher than they did when they were assessed in 2022, the last time Guilford County held a […]
Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog The death of a patient in a bathroom at Mission Hospital earlier this month reflects a return to poor staffing conditions, especially in the hospital’s emergency department, similar to those that precipitated federal sanctions last year, healthcare advocates said at a news conference Friday. Understaffing has led to “at least one other […]
Anne Blythe/NC Health News When North Carolina started enrolling more people in the expanded Medicaid program almost 15 months ago, hundreds of thousands of low-income people became eligible for an array of dental services. But that didn’t mean dentists across the state started welcoming the new Medicaid beneficiaries onto their chairs. Nearly 60 percent of […]
Cory Vaillancourt/The Smoky Mountain News Last week, Haywood County Republican Rep. Mark Pless filed a bill that would strip the county of its ability to levy room occupancy taxes. Now, he’s revealed that the impact of tourism on public safety and tight county budgets are also a motivating force behind it. “I think they are […]
Mitchell Northam & Will Michaels/WUNC Radio President Donald Trump is downsizing the federal workforce through the Department of Governmental Efficiency, which is headed by billionaire Elon Musk and commonly known as DOGE. Since Trump began his second term in office, thousands of workers have been placed on administrative leave, laid off or simply fired. National […]
The Associated Press The owner of a North Carolina company pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to trying to sell electronic devices that have military applications to China without having a required U.S. government license, authorities said. David C. Bohmerwald, who was formally charged in October with violating the Export Control Reform Act and […]
Chantal Brown/Education NC Wayne School of Technical Arts, part of Wayne County Public Schools (WCPS), is the only public school in North Carolina that is located on a military installation, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. They share this in common with only a small number of schools nationwide. Leaders say the school was conceived to […]
Peter Castagno/Port City Daily More than a dozen senators sent a letter to the Department of Defense requesting an investigation into the cause of rising rental rates for service member families. The senators emphasized an ongoing national lawsuit against software firm RealPage and its contribution to spiked rents in areas including the Port City. Fifteen […]
Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A proposal by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission to charge a fee for recreating on public lands has been scaled back significantly ahead of a public hearing to be held from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at the Haywood Community College auditorium. The public hearing in Haywood is the only one […]
Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise Construction crews at High Point University remain on track to complete work on a pair of buildings before the next school year that will house two recently added academic programs. The projects involve an investment of $92.5 million. The new buildings will become the homes of the Workman School […]
