Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC The North Carolina Republican-led Senate unveiled its 2025-27 budget proposal on Monday night, calling for pay raises for teachers and most state employees and additional funds for Hurricane Helene recovery, among other things. Most state employees would receive an across-the-board raise of 1.25% in FY 2025-26, along with a $3,000 raise […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press In 2021, after months of tough negotiations over clean energy policies, North Carolina lawmakers, Gov. Roy Cooper and public energy utilities made a commitment: by 2050, North Carolina’s largest electric generating facilities would reach carbon neutrality. By then, facilities would offset each ton of carbon dioxide they released into the atmosphere […]
Tyler Davis/The (Henderson) Daily Dispatch Monday morning, Henderson city council members received word of a complaint made by a city employee as well as the results of an employee survey administered by the city’s human resources department. Though they didn’t discuss specifics at the regular meeting that afternoon, it would seem that either the surveys […]
Joseph Williams/The (Whiteville) News Reporter Faced with a projected sevenfold increase in property tax collection fees from Columbus County government, the City of Whiteville has made the first step to start its own in-house collections later this year. During its Tuesday meeting, city council authorized staff to move forward after having outsourced that work to […]
Morgan Casey/CityView Almost 300 children are waiting for a spot to open at First Adventures Child Development Center, a child care center under Cape Fear Valley Health that serves the health system’s employees. Some of them won’t have to wait much longer. Cape Fear Valley Health is expanding the center, increasing its capacity by 200 […]
Port City Daily New Hanover County Commissioner Dane Scalise and City of Wilmington Councilmember Luke Waddell have been appointed to serve four-year terms on the UNCW Board of Trustees. Starting their terms in July, Waddell and Scalise were appointed by the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors on May 15. They will replace […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio When the North Carolina lottery began in 2005, the idea was that all money would go to public education. The public believed the lottery dollars would supplement money already spent on K-12 schools. But over the last two decades, critics say the lottery money has, in part, replaced money that was previously […]
WRAL News The North Carolina Museum of Art is undergoing a major renovation project that will involve the park amphitheater and many spaces within the museum’s East building. “It involves multiple sp aces within our original East building, including our conservation lab, an addition above the conservation lab on the main level of that building, […]
Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio Western North Carolina is witnessing a “remarkable” natural event this spring as thousands of cicadas emerge from a 17-year stint underground. With a buzz that is louder than a lawnmower, these cicadas have been waiting almost two decades to surface. And, despite a Bob Dylan song mislabeling them, they […]
Growing up in California in the 1960s, my family’s house was about seven miles from Disneyland and seven miles from the beach. It was also about 15 miles from MCAS El Toro — which made sonic booms a feature of daily life. The Marines based there, you see, flew F-4 Phantoms. SOP was hit the afterburners, take off […]
NCInnovation’s $500 million endowment might go away as soon as legislators pass a budget, but for now the nonprofit is still pumping money into research efforts in the UNC System. On Wednesday, it announced a group of 17 awards to projects that it sees as having “commercial promise.” Combined, they’re worth $13.6 million, and they’re […]
Prolec GE Waukesha, a company with 374 employees already in Wayne County, plans to add 330 more jobs with a $140 million investment to build a second manufacturing facility on the edge of Goldsboro. Headquartered in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Prolec-GE Waukesha is one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of power transformers. It’s a subsidiary of Monterrey, […]
Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill The Medicaid portion of the House GOP’s massive domestic policy bill would result in 10.3 million people losing Medicaid coverage by 2034 and 7.6 million people going uninsured, according to a partial (CBO) Congressional Budget Office estimate. Republicans released the estimates just ahead of the start of Tuesday’s markup of the Energy […]
Amudalat Ajasa/The Washington Post The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it plans to rescind and reconsider limits on four “forever chemicals” under a landmark drinking water standard implemented last year by President Joe Biden. The drinking water rules were adopted as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to limit public exposure to per- and […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press This was once a quaint, coastal town, all cobblestone and sand dunes. When Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo graduated from high school in 1978, the vast majority of the graduating class hightailed it out of here as fast as they could. There were no jobs and no prospects. Now, it’s bursting […]
