April Laissle/WFDD Radio Greensboro’s two remaining mayoral candidates found common ground at a forum on Wednesday. But questions about government oversight revealed some key differences. Democratic City Council Member and current Mayor Pro Tem Marikay Abuzuaiter and former mayor, Republican Robbie Perkins, appeared to agree on several issues, including keeping taxes stable, increasing housing stock […]
Bob Liepa/Wilmington StarNews AJ Trelease loves his 97-year-old grandmother. That comes across when he talks about her. But he also worries about her. He said she takes over 20 medications every day. “The number one thing that worried me is is she taking it at the right time?” Trelease, founder of the Wilmington-based CareHome Health […]
State Sen. Bobby Hanig, R-Currituck, says he’s going to continue running for the First District Congressional seat, following this week’s realignment of the First’s boundaries with the Third District. Approved in party line votes in the General Assembly, the redistricting moved four counties out of the First District into the Third, six from the Third […]
House members are pressing the N.C. State Bar to put tighter controls on which groups get funding from a grant program it administers. Legislators earlier this year passed a law forbidding the bar’s “IOLTA” program from issuing grants for the entirety of fiscal 2025-26. The group normally funds organizations like Legal Aid of North Carolina. […]
The Athletic Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier were arrested Thursday as part of a federal investigation into illegal betting activities, federal law enforcement officials said during a news conference in New York. Rozier, 31, was taken into custody in Orlando, where the Heat played on Wednesday night. He […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Federal regulators have officially placed Asheville’s Mission Hospital in Immediate Jeopardy for the second straight year. The hospital now has 18 days to make things right, or else lose its Medicaid certification and the critical funding that comes along with it. Preventable patient death, unsafe patient transport, patient misidentification and […]
Mary Helen Moore/Axios Raleigh North Carolina’s previous congressional map left Greensboro without a hometown representative in Congress, and that won’t change under the new map passed Wednesday. Why it matters: For now, there are four Democrats in North Carolina’s 14-seat congressional delegation, despite its status as a fast-growing swing state. None of them are from […]
James Farrell/WFAE Radio Hundreds of Union County Public Schools teachers on Wednesday called in sick and marched to protest what they consider an insufficient increase to Union County’s teacher salary supplement. The school board is set to vote on approving a $1,000 increase to the local salary supplement on Nov. 6. That raise had been […]
Justin Theal & Page Forrest/Pew After years of growth, states’ rainy day fund capacity—the number of days they could cover state operations—fell in fiscal year 2025, the first decline since the Great Recession of 2007-09. At the end of fiscal 2025, the median state could run on just its rainy day funds for 46.9 days, […]
Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News When an overdose is reported in coastal Carteret County, 911 dispatchers send emergency responders racing to the scene carrying naloxone — the opioid reversal medication that can bring someone back from the brink of death. At the same time, the county’s six-member post-overdose response team — composed of a team manager […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The Community Justice Center, a grant-funded operation bringing nonprofits and the justice system under the same roof to promote efficient collaboration and access, has now been open for more than a year. The vision of a one-stop shop has yet to be fully realized, and when it does, its partners say […]
Vicki Hyatt/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Two-thirds of all trash buried in Haywood County’s landfill in White Oak between July 2024 and June 2025 came from outside the county — due to an agreement to sell landfill space for trash hauled in from surrounding states. Meanwhile, the landfill is expected to fill up within another 20 years. […]
Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online The 18.8 million visitors to North Carolina’s nine National Park Service sites in 2024 injected $2.3 billion into the state’s economy, second only to California’s $3.7 billion, finds a recent report. Of that $2.3 billion statewide, around 4.7 million visitors spent $732.2 million in the communities around the coast’s five […]
Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network They’re rolling in from South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, attracted by the promise of a temperate and warming climate, vast tracts of diggable land, room to expand, and a nearly endless supply of fire ants − a delicacy for these banded travelers. But these new residents to North Carolina aren’t adding […]
Duke University officials warned faculty earlier this fall that the Medicaid cuts associated with the federal government’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” were far worse than they’d expected. Briefing the university’s Academic Council back in September, Vice President for Finance Rachel Satterfield said the institution’s financial planning had assumed Duke Health would lose about $200 million […]
