Before its summer break, the General Assembly passed and Gov. Josh Stein signed a bill that made it easier for physicians from out-of-state and overseas to come to North Carolina and practice their profession. House Bill 67 also include similar provisions for physician assistants coming from out of state, and others that loosened restrictions on […]
UNC Chapel Hill already has the lowest standing of any of North Carolina’s state universities in the annual FIRE College Free Speech Rankings, and that might not be getting better anytime soon. The Daily Tar Heel in a recent series of articles has highlighted the campus administration’s move to first cover and then take down a student-created mural that had […]
Deana Harley/CBS 17 News Some 80,000 voters in North Carolina will not need to update their voter registration to vote in the next federal election after months of back and forth between the State Board of Elections, the Department of Justice, and the Democratic National Committee. Under the Help America Vote Act, or HAVA, the […]
Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The roaster looks almost like an old steam locomotive, its polished steel drum gleaming under fluorescent light, a hulking American-made machine with heat coursing through its belly. Bins of beans — raw, pale, grassy — wait their turn to be transformed into fragrant, oily perfection. The space around it smells sweetly […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The news about crops out of North Carolina farms is good this year: the corn is tall, the soybeans leafy, the cotton fluffy and the apples ripe. Compared to last year’s disastrous summer, when it seemed flooding was the only relief from extreme drought, this summer has left farmers feeling […]
Mary Helen Moore/WUNC Radio Recreational flounder season is underway in North Carolina, allowing anglers a brief two-week window to catch and keep the popular fish. The state hopes to unlock more fishing opportunities next year by separating the season for southern flounder — which scientists believe has been overfished — from the season for North […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Congress has cut federal funding for public media — an $800,000 loss for WFAE. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism. Charlotte Area Transit System interim CEO Brent Cagle said Wednesday that fare enforcement on buses and light rail will […]
Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio North Carolina’s agriculture commissioner last week started sending checks to farmers who were affected by natural disasters like Hurricane Helene. The payments are part of a $478 million dollar allocation from a statewide Helene-relief bill. The state received more than 8,000 applications for aid after the bill was passed […]
Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily Residents expressed their concerns to the New Hanover County commissioners this week, urging them to hold Novant Health accountable for patient care and safety standards. About 30 demonstrators gathered outside of the New Hanover County commissioner meeting on Sept. 2 to demand commissioners address poor patient safety ratings at Novant New […]
Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The state has issued another environmental violation to the debris landfill in Canton for discharging pollutants into a local river — this time from the solid waste division of the Department of Environmental Quality. This violation was the sixth that Two Banks Development’s landfill received in less than a week for […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView Two more people have dropped out of the November Fayetteville City Council election, Cumberland County Elections Director Angie Amaro told CityView on Tuesday. Khalil Younger, who was running for the District 7 seat, and Robbie Poole, who was running for the District 8 seat, withdrew around August 19, Amaro said. District 7 covers […]
Jenna Fryer/The Associated Press A federal judge on Wednesday denied two teams — one owned by NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan — a preliminary injunction in their antitrust suit against NASCAR to be recognized as chartered teams for the remainder of the season. Judge Kenneth Bell of the U.S. District Court for the Western […]
State Sen. Bobby Hanig, R-Currituck, says he’s going to run for Congress, which ensures that the Senate’s GOP caucus will have at least one new member in the 2027-28 session. On Wednesday, Hanig said he’s going to run for the 1st District seat currently held by U.S. Rep Don Davis, a Democrat. That sets up […]
A divided state Court of Appeals panel has breathed new life into a set of asbestos-related worker’s comp lawsuits against Continental Tire, which formerly operated a tire factory in Charlotte. The 14 lawsuits are a subset of what started out as about 150 different claims against the company, all of which alleged that former workers […]
Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News North Carolina students are making big gains in math, though they remain behind the proficiency rates of 2018 and 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, new data from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction shows. Statewide test proficiency rates are still behind pre-pandemic levels across all subjects except for fourth-grade […]
