Daneen Khan/The Daily Tar Heel The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence. SILS and SDSS faculty were informed of the decision on Wednesday at two independent school meetings before it was announced publicly at 1:04 […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView Fayetteville City Council Member Lynne Greene is considering whether to file a complaint with the police that her former opponent in this year’s municipal election, Enrique “Ranger Rick” Murillo, levied a threat against her on Wednesday morning. The alleged threat was in a Facebook post, which Greene said Murillo copied to her via […]
Morgan Casey/CityView Cuts to North Carolina’s Medicaid reimbursement rates could cost Cape Fear Valley Health millions of dollars in revdenue this year and decrease access to care for thousands of patients, according to the health system’s leaders. The cuts, which range between 3% and 10%, went into effect on Oct. 1 and are the result […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Two weeks ago, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Susan Rodriguez McDowell hosted a forum in Steele Creek about the multi-billion-dollar transportation plan on the November ballot. Interim CATS Chief Executive Brent Cagle was on the panel, along with McDowell, Matthews Commissioner Renee Garner, eastside leader Greg Asciutto and former Charlotte City Council member Braxton […]
Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger Jacqueline Stowe has seen big promises come and go. The 76-year-old grew up in Brooklyn, a thriving Black community just outside uptown Charlotte that in the 1960s was bulldozed for urban renewal. City leaders told residents they would rebuild and that families like hers could come back. […]
Mebane Rash/Education NC As of Oct. 6, 2025, the total number of students receiving vouchers in North Carolina is 98,917, according to new data, up from 80,472 at the end of 2024-25. Of the 2025-26 recipients, 65,491 are students who renewed their voucher. That means almost 15,000 students who had vouchers in 2024-25 chose not […]
Richard Stradling/The (Raleigh) News & Observer WakeMed will soon break ground on a new campus in Garner that will put two new hospitals under one roof. One will be a 45-bed acute care hospital, where people will be treated for heart attacks, broken bones and other physical conditions. The other will be the 150-bed WakeMed […]
WFAE Radio LendingTree CEO Doug Lebda died Sunday in an ATV accident. The Charlotte-based company announced his death Monday morning. Lebda founded LendingTree in 1996, and it has since grown into one of Charlotte’s most prominent homegrown financial companies. Scott Peyree, who has been LendingTree’s president and chief operating officer, was appointed CEO effective immediately. […]
Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer An unexpected hit to the town’s budget has Maggie Valley aldermen debating whether to freeze putting a new police officer on the streets just months after the board voted to add the additional position. Town Manager Vicki Best told alderman Tuesday morning during an agenda setting meeting that legislation passed by […]
Will Doran/WRAL News More than $6.5 billion in medical debt has been relieved for more than 2.5 million North Carolinians over the past year, through a program set up by the state and paid for with federal funds. Poor credit scores, dragged down by debt, can make it hard for people to be approved for […]
Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline The debate over whether North Carolina should continue running its own liquor system came up again this week, as House lawmakers again weighed the system’s efficiency against the hundreds of millions of dollars it funnels to state and local governments. State lawmakers have discussed ending the state’s liquor monopoly for years, but […]
Kayla Bradshaw & Jackson Auchincloss/The Daily Tar Heel At a UNC Students for Justice in Palestine tribunal demonstration on Thursday, a crowd of about 40 gathered in front of the flagpole on Polk Place to watch members of the group condemn the University’s affiliation with individuals and groups they deemed Zionists and complicit in genocide. […]
Forsyth County Commissioners have agreed to a plan they hope incentivizes private donors to come forward with part of the money the local system needs to dig out from under a budget deficit. Voting Thursday, they agreed they’ll waive up to $5 million in “debt” the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools owes their government, as a one-for-one match […]
The NC Chamber has expanded its roster of international partnerships by signing a memorandum of understanding with its counterpart in Abu Dhabi. Chamber officials say the partnership “will foster meaningful collaboration in areas such as energy, finance, life sciences and artificial intelligence.” The MOU follows similar arrangements with Northern Ireland and Colombia. Abu Dhabi’s signing […]
A capped-tuition plan for four UNC System institutions spends nearly as much money subsidizing out-of-state students as it does for North Carolinians, according to system figures. Officials are sending $84.1 million to institutions participating in the NC Promise program to make up the difference between what it allows them to charge students and what they’d […]
