The (High Point) Enterprise Novant Health has named new executives to its Triad Region leadership team, including at the health system’s hospitals in Thomasville and Kernersville. Chris Brown became facility president and chief operating officer of Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center effective May 19, and Brown began his health care career as a radiologic and […]
Smoky Mountain News The N.C. Department of Transportation and its partners have selected two sites in the Pigeon River Gorge for extracting and storing material to help rebuild sections of Interstate 40 damaged by Hurricane Helene. A nearly 33-acre site will be used to extract stone, and an adjacent 11.5-acre site will be used to […]
So far, there’s been little obvious progress in the House on the consideration of Senate Bill 261, which proposes to make it easier for Duke Energy to pass along to customers the construction costs of new power plants before they go online. But that’s about to change. A draft rewrite of the bill is circulating among […]
Legislators seem inclined to make it harder to call on N.C. Department of Labor inspectors to provide information to parties involved in private lawsuits. A Labor Department agency request, House Bill 568 passed that chamber in April on a 72-42 vote, and is now pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee. It could get a vote there as […]
Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press As climate-related disasters grow more frequent and costly, communities and governments face tough questions about how to mitigate future floods. Federal, state, and local decision makers often clash because they’re driven by different incentives, budget constraints and timelines, making coordination among governments challenging. State Sen. Julie Mayfield, D-Buncombe, is making resilience […]
Eli Chen/WUNC Radio After 35 years, Neo-China, one of Durham’s oldest Chinese restaurants, has closed its doors. The family-owned restaurant grappled with increasing inventory prices caused by the 145% tariff the U.S. imposed on Chinese goods in April. Since then, the trade war has de-escalated and a 90-day pause has been put on a tariff […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s board of directors were given the chance to stop a tolled Cape Fear Memorial Bridge in its tracks this week and it chose not to, even after protest from one member. The board voted 8-4 on a resolution to confirm it wants to continue […]
John Boyle & Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog After decades of planning and debate, the North Carolina Department of Transportation has said it’s close to starting construction on the long-gestating I-26 Connector project. But community members, including architects and planners, are still asking the agency to reconsider some of its designs, particularly a controversial and once-secretive overpass […]
Keely Arthur/WRAL News In a one-on-one interview with 5 WRAL On Your Side, newly appointed Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Commissioner Paul Tine promised shorter wait times and fewer headaches for North Carolinians in need of DMV services. “It’s going to get better,” he said. “I wouldn’t be in the job if I didn’t believe […]
Chantal Brown/Education NC Some school districts in North Carolina have decided that their best future teacher candidates may already be in the area — just still in high school. These districts have begun their own iterations of teacher cadet programs, where high school students take introductory education courses and are placed with experienced teachers who […]
Jaymie Baxley, Rose Hoban & Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News The Healthy Opportunities Pilot, a Medicaid program that addressed the nonmedical health needs of low-income North Carolinians, will cease operations July 1, according to an announcement obtained by NC Health News. The first-in-the-nation effort that has drawn national attention and praise was launched in 2022 and […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Coastal communities are inundated more often than previously believed, and floodwaters take longer to recede in rural areas than in urban areas, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, also found that the way government agencies gather data used to predict floods […]
Felicia Sonmez/Blue Ridge Radio The landscape for short-term rentals in Buncombe County has changed drastically since before Hurricane Helene. For years, Asheville and Buncombe County’s market for short-term rentals — such as those found on websites like Airbnb and VRBO — was booming. Things were going so well that some local residents began to worry […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView The Fayetteville Public Works Commission has not given up on its plan to build a $9.5 million solar farm off Ramsey Street just north of Fayetteville after the Cumberland County Commissioners on May 19 threw a roadblock in the project’s path. The electric utility’s board held a closed-door meeting on Wednesday morning to […]
North Carolina ranks third nationally in a study of the states that are benefiting the most from the movement of taxpayers and their dollars from state to states. The report from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation reckons that Florida gained $196 billion in net adjusted gross income over the past decade due to interstate migration, followed by […]
