Alan Wooten/The Center Square As a North Carolina congressman’s bill awaits committee action, a federal appeals court in the District of Columbia on Monday temporarily halted a rule change for non-domiciled commercial learner’s permits and commercial driver’s licenses. The Sept. 26 rule change announced by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy came between the spotlights of triple-fatal […]
Adam Wagner/NC Newsroom & WUNC Radio A Wake County Superior Court Judge has ruled that the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services must roll back one of the Medicaid provider reimbursement rate cuts it enacted in an effort to save money amid a funding standoff. DHHS says the state’s Medicaid program is facing a […]
Nada Hassanein/NC Newsline In their competition for rural health care dollars from a new federal fund, states are seeking money to bolster emergency services, address chronic diseases, and recruit and train more doctors and nurses. All 50 states submitted their applications to the federal government last week to get shares of the $50 billion Rural […]
Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer If another disaster knocks out phone, cell and internet service like in Helene, the county’s emergency shelter won’t be caught flat footed with no way to communicate. More than $500,000 of state and federal money will bolster communication for the county’s emergency shelter and EMS base located at the former National […]
WFDD Radio Greensboro Police Chief John Thompson has announced he’s retiring in February. Thompson began his career in law enforcement with the Asheboro Police Department in 1998. He would go on to join the Greensboro Police Department in 2003 and has led GPD since 2022. Thompson said in a statement that the announcement comes as […]
Will Atwater/NC Health News Single-use, compostable and recyclable takeout containers are on their way out at some North Carolina universities. Stainless steel is taking their place. This fall, UNC Greensboro introduced reusable stainless steel foodware in its campus dining halls, joining UNC Wilmington to become just the second university in the state to adopt the […]
Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online It was a nasty January day about 14 years ago, not long after publication of his book, “The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast: Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future,” when veteran East Carolina University coastal scientist Dr. Stan Riggs, the book’s lead author, had an unexpected and impactful […]
UNC Chapel Hill and NC State officials are moving to propose 3% tuition increases for new in-state undergraduates who arrive on campus this fall. This capitalizes on the UNC System’s willingness — and the legislature’s — to lift the de facto freeze on in-state tuition increases that’s been in effect since 2017. Pending trustee review […]
Duke Energy CFO Brian Savoy made waves this week when he told a reporter from Bloomberg that the utility is exploring the idea of using “private credit” to finance a portion of its construction plans. The publication quoted him as saying that non-bank lending could be the “icing on the cake” for a finance package built […]
Richard Stradling/The (Charlotte) Observer To rebuild Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge, the N.C. Department of Transportation will blast a giant hole in Pisgah National Forest and haul away tons of rock. To help make up for the damage done by the quarry, NCDOT has agreed to take several steps to help the national […]
Kevin Ellis/Business North Carolina Asheville-based solar power company Pine Gate Renewables could eliminate 223 more workers as it works through bankruptcy. The company, which at one time employed more than 1,000 workers, laid off about 500 workers in October. Pine Gate filed for bankruptcy last week. It reportedly had $4.4 billion in debt against just […]
Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio The State Board of Elections has hired new top staff members who have previously worked for Republican elected officials. The hiring moves come after the legislature moved the agency into the state auditor’s office and gave the board a Republican majority. Elections board general counsel Paul Cox has been replaced by Tim […]
Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts told faculty leaders the university does not plan on signing President Donald Trump’s administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” in exchange for favorable consideration of federal funding. During his scheduled comments at the UNC Faculty Council meeting, Roberts told faculty “nobody” has asked the university’s leadership […]
Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Henderson County is expected to begin receiving some federal reimbursement in the next month to begin paying for the estimated $60 million the county has spent or is obligated to spend to remove debris left in the wake of Hurricane Helene. In the last few days, the county learned that $15.7 million […]
Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News UNC Greensboro junior Taniyah McCormick grabbed a couple of plastic bags to fill as she perused the shelves at the Spartan Open Pantry on Thursday. She used to stop by once a month, but with rising prices — and now a delay in her November federal food benefits — she said […]
