Michelle Crouch/Charlotte Ledger & NC Health News Advocate Health CEO Gene Woods’ compensation surged to $25.8 million in 2024, a 49 percent jump from the $17.3 million he earned the previous year, according to a recent tax filing. Woods’ total pay leading the Atrium Health parent company has more than quadrupled since 2017, his first […]
Rob Stein & Sydney Lupkin/WFAE Radio The Food and Drug Administration intends to get tougher on vaccine approvals, as top officials raised concerns about the risk of COVID vaccines for children. Speaking on Fox News Saturday morning, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said the agency would no longer “rubber-stamp new products that don’t work,” claiming it […]
Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily After weeks of complaining, residents near Southport Elementary and its students will breathe without concern of smoke inhalation. A 1,390-unit development by Indigo Plantation and off of 9th Street no longer will be conducting land-clearing burns. Mayor Rich Alt, with help from Rep. Charles Miller [R-19] and Brunswick County Commissioner Pat […]
Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Barring any last-minute legal snafus, North Carolina is a week away from the official start of the 2026 elections — the candidate filing period. From Dec. 1 to Dec. 19, candidates running for a spot in Congress, the state legislature, courts and various local offices must file documentation with election boards […]
Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The shock and awe of I-40’s collapse into the Pigeon River Gorge left drivers stranded, terrified and desperate — a scene most would flee from. But in stepped six brave heroes at the N.C. Highway Patrol and the N.C. Department of Transportation, who worked tirelessly to get those folks to safety. […]
Joy Crist/Island Free Press A delegation of roughly two dozen local, state, and federal officials toured the rapidly eroding Buxton shoreline on Monday, walking through the area where 15 oceanfront homes collapsed over a six-week span in the fall, and where dozens more remain at risk. North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) Secretary Reid […]
Laura Hackett/Blue Ridge Public Radio The owners of the music venue The Salvage Station are about to engage in the ultimate upcycling. They’re transforming an old paper recycling site into a new indoor music venue. This week, owners Danny McClinton and Katie Hild, announced an agreement with Asheville Waste Paper Company to create a Salvage […]
Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot With the Moore County Board of Education set on retaining its own police department, the board’s Safety Committee met Monday to continue parsing through ways to fill officer shortfalls. The discussion ran the gamut, exploring a variety of strategies to bolster recruitment and reinforce current officer retention, including changing the […]
Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro An international business is close to relocating its North American operations to Orange County, the North Carolina governor announced on Wednesday. A release from Gov. Josh Stein’s office shared the French manufacturing company CITEL is planning on relocating its U.S. business to Hillsborough and will invest $12.5 million in the project while […]
Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times It looks like 2025 was a better year for Wilson County farmers with an estimated income of $154,934,027 from farm gate sales of farm products. Norman Harrell, executive director of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension office in Wilson County, reported the figures at the annual Farm-City Week Celebration Tuesday at […]
Ashley Anderson/CBS 17 News The legislative assistant to Republican Senator Norman Sanderson, Diane Cook, has been arrested and booked into the Wake County Detention Center. Cook is accused of “willfully” and “maliciously” burning a house in the 8300 block of Boca Point in Raleigh, according to her arrest warrant. At the time of the burning, […]
Amy McCraw & Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Henderson County commissioners devoted yet another long discussion to the Clear Creek sewer project last week, hours after state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom blasted them for making “incorrect statements” about the Legislature’s move to shift a grant from that project to the county-owned Etowah sewer system. After the state removed […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily This year may have been lackluster for film in Wilmington and across the state, but leaders are hoping 2026 will come with changes to North Carolina’s film incentive, including more benefits to smaller, independent productions. The hurdle? Getting the North Carolina General Assembly to, one, include the updates in both chambers’ […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The North Carolina Department of Transportation plans to spend $3.2 billion expanding Interstate 77 from uptown to the South Carolina line with two express toll lanes in each direction. But new renderings of the highway through uptown have alarmed residents, who worry the wider highway will decimate their neighborhoods. At a recent […]
Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Since its opening in September 2020, 850 children have been born at UNC Health Chatham’s Maternity Care Center. The center’s staff is made up mostly of family physicians instead of OB-GYNs. The care model aims to address the lack of maternal and infant care in rural areas, where obstetric units have […]
