The Coastal Resources Commission is trying, once again, to come up with a protection rule for Jockey’s Ridge that another regulatory body will accept. Members on Thursday approved a re-draft of the rule that deletes a preamble that identifies the Nags Head landmark as “the tallest active sand dune (medano) along the Atlantic Coast of […]
WRAL News UNC Health will have a new CEO, the UNC System announced Thursday. Dr. Cristy Page will officially begin the roles as UNC Health’s CEO, the dean of the UNC School of Medicine and as vice chancellor for medical affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday, Nov. 24. She was elected by the UNC Board […]
Danielle Battaglia/The (Raleigh) News & Observer Sen. Thom Tillis called for oversight of the use of the U.S. Border Patrol in Charlotte during a Senate hearing Thursday. Border Patrol agents began appearing throughout Charlotte Saturday near places like grocery stores, schools and churches, rounding up Hispanic residents, often forcefully, and with little information about what […]
Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline A North Carolina administrative law judge has temporarily frozen Medicaid rate cuts for personal care services delivered in adult care homes. The ruling came after the North Carolina Assisted Living Association and dozens of companies challenged the 8% cut to Medicaid rates for personal care services in administrative court. Personal care services […]
Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Before the cameras roll, before the microphones click on, and before the public meetings begin, the Fayetteville City Council gathers in a cramped room on the third floor of City Hall. These sessions are the council’s little-known dinner meetings. For nearly two decades, the gatherings have quietly shaped city policy—all without livestreams, […]
Gerrit De Vynck & Nitasha Tiku/The Washington Post The Trump administration is drafting an executive order that would direct the Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating artificial intelligence, according to a copy reviewed by The Washington Post and confirmed by a person familiar with the White House effort, who spoke on the […]
Adam Wagner/NC Newsroom The agency tasked with overseeing the rebuilding of homes damaged and destroyed in Hurricanes Florence and Matthew failed to control its budget, resulting in an emergency appropriation from the General Assembly, and was slow to process applications, according to a new report from State Auditor Dave Boliek. The N.C. Office of Recovery […]
Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog Owning the land beneath their mobile home has given Laura Garcia and her husband the security to replace its ceilings, rebuild its exterior, add on a front porch and apply a fresh coat of light gray paint highlighted with wine-colored trim. “Rather than depend on a landlord we depend on ourselves as […]
Amy McCraw/Hendersonville Lightning After hearing from state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom in a late-night email, county commissioners on Wednesday morning directed staff to begin working with contractors on a scaled-down version of the Clear Creek sewer project that might serve as the first phase of a planned sewer line in Edneyville. “It seems to me we’ve […]
Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger When a Charlotte man fell off a ladder last week and likely fractured his foot, his doctor told him he needed to go to the hospital for an X-ray. But the man, the Latino owner of a small construction company, refused to go, the doctor said. He […]
David Ford/WFDD Radio The 62nd annual Piedmont Craftsmen’s Fair gets underway this weekend with more than 100 artists participating. The artisans come from across the U.S. to showcase their work in clay, wood, glass, fiber, and more. About 30 of them hail from the mountains. Some had to cancel last year in Helene’s aftermath. Executive […]
State Auditor Dave Boliek’s review of the N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency is complete, and it should come as no surprise that he and his staff are sharply critical of its work. In the wake of Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, NCORR “has been a source of hardship” for many people Down East, Boliek said […]
Novartis wasn’t Wednesday’s only Durham-related recruiting win, as financial-services firm Aspida said it plans to add 1,000 jobs here in the coming years. To land the $28.8 million project, the state and Durham County are serving up a $26.4 million incentives package. The state’s end includes a $21.8 million Job Development Investment Grant. Durham County […]
Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG is poised to expand an existing factory in Durham and build new ones in Durham and Morrisville, in a move state officials expect will create at least 380 new jobs by 2030. They are also expecting Novartis to invest $771 million in the project, in return for a $21.8 million incentives […]
Hundreds of workers at commercial construction sites aren’t showing up for work this week in Charlotte and Raleigh because of concern over federal immigration enforcement efforts. “Commercial construction contractors are very concerned in the wake of ICE agents coming to Charlotte and Raleigh,” says David Simpson, CEO of the Carolinas Associated General Contractors, or AGC. […]
