Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Demolition is underway at the former paper mill in Canton, signaling another step towards a new future for the town. The process is ongoing on the side of the property near Blackwell Drive, with some medium-sized buildings already starting to come down, according to Mayor Zeb Smathers. It is a bittersweet […]
Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline For the sixth year in a row, Rep. Julie von Haefen has filed a bill to fully fund the state’s Leandro education plan, a landmark court-ordered initiative to provide every child in North Carolina with a sound basic education. And for the sixth year, the Democratic lawmaker says her bill has been […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural women’s health care in North Carolina: Small, remote hospitals can’t afford to keep delivering babies and providing other critical OB/GYN services, but their communities can’t afford for them to stop. If any hope exists to stop or reverse this trend, rural hospitals and health care professionals […]
DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio Greensboro recently approved annexing land that was formerly part of the town of Summerfield into its city limits. The land is a portion of nearly 1,000 acres removed from Summerfield by the state legislature last year. It came after years of back and forth between developer David Couch and town officials over […]
WRAL News Raleigh City Council on Tuesday approved a $21.8 million contract that will improve Lake Wheeler Road and make it a “Complete Street.” The “Complete Street” concept would take a road that has no pedestrian or bike access and change it into a road that accommodates all types of transportation. The Lake Wheeler Road […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The city will seek to bring more riders into its transit system with a new service offering launching later this month. HPTSGo! will provide on-demand shared rides for passengers to parts of High Point not currently served by the city’s fixed-route bus system. This “microtransit” service, which will begin March […]
Cindy W. Hodnett/Furniture Today When Klaussner Home Furnishings abruptly closed its doors in 2023, numerous retailers were left in the lurch, including John Garg, CEO of Jennifer Furniture. At the time, Garg told Furniture Today that the sudden shutdown was a “worse situation than COVID for me” and one that was a “major loss we’re […]
WSOC News Fishermen Luke Beard and Jason Rosenfeld caught and released a shark Tuesday off the coast of Cape Hatteras on Tuesday. “The biggest priority is keeping the fish safe and get a good release on all fish that we catch,” Beard said. “I was about in tears after we released that fish, because it’s […]
House members have advanced a bill that would require explicit General Assembly approval of any state regulation that’s likely to have an economic impact of $1 million or more in any given year. Legislative approval would supplement, not supplant, the existing process that now ends with the state’s Rules Review Commission, according to House Bill 402. […]
The UNC System’s selection of Kevin Howell as the next chancellor of NC State University is winning support from across the political spectrum. Gov. Josh Stein led the parade of praise on Twitter, said he “think[s] the world of Kevin” and looks forward to working with him in his new role. Senate leader Phil Berger […]
It’s looking like House and Senate leaders aren’t on the same page about how to go about regulating health insurers’ use of prior authorization for treatments to control medical costs. House Rules chair John Bell, R-Wayne, and other GOP members from the chamber on Tuesday rolled out House Bill 434, which they’re calling the “Care […]
Business North Carolina The UNC System Board of Governors approved Kevin Howell as chancellor at NC State University, confirming media reports from last week. Howell will succeed Chancellor Randy Woodson, who is retiring this summer after 15 years leading the Raleigh university. Howell has worked at NC State and the UNC System for nearly 20 […]
Greg Childress/NC Newsline North Carolina’s property tax homestead exclusion for disabled veterans would increase from $45,000 to $61,000 under a bill approved Tuesday in the House Homeland Security and Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. Currently, the first $45,000 of a disabled veterans’ assessed value of a permanent residence is exempt from property taxes. That amount […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Financial pressures on rural hospitals keep some North Carolina facilities from adequately serving pregnant women, new mothers and babies, but that isn’t the full picture. Workforce shortages and demographic shifts — coupled with a lack of regulatory requirements and policy support — compound the problem, further distancing women from the […]
Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Dr. Bim Akintade, dean of the East Carolina University College of Nursing (left) poses for a photo with nurse practitioner Ivy Bagley. Bagley was one of about 20 people who graduated in December 2024 from the university’s psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program. Credit: Courtesy of East Carolina University By Jennifer […]
