Taylor Knopf/NC Health News Six years ago, Jami Mundy was released from the Richmond County jail. She said she didn’t want to use drugs anymore. The previous year, she had overdosed nine times, and she wanted a better life for herself and her then-12-year-old daughter. With few places to go, Mundy ended up at the […]
Julian Berger/WFAE Radio A U.S. citizen detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection will face only one of the felonies he was originally charged with, after the judge threw out the more severe of the two. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler ruled last week there was probable cause to charge 24-year-old Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square Republican Michael Whatley will go through at least a three-candidate primary in his bid for a U.S. Senate seat from North Carolina. Candidate filing for the 2026 midterms opened Monday at noon and the five-hour period included two lesser-known candidates from the Grand Old Party filing to succeed Republican U.S. Sen. […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press State Auditor Dave Boliek has a New Year’s resolution for state agencies: spend the remaining $1.2 billion in federal COVID funds before they expire at the end of 2026. In spring 2021, amid the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed a massive stimulus package that sent $5.4 billion to […]
Lynn Bonner & Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline A North Carolina political race that has been brewing for years became official Monday, with Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page filing to run against Senate Leader Phil Berger in the Republican primary in the district that includes Rockingham and part of Guilford. Candidate filing started Monday. When it ends […]
Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog Documents obtained by Asheville Watchdog detail an array of staff errors, communication breakdowns and technological problems at Mission Hospital that state and federal regulators said put patients’ lives and safety at risk and that still threaten the hospital’s ability to continue receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding. The documents — each the findings […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Charlotte City Council swore in three new members Monday night and selected a new mayor pro tem as the new term began. Joi Mayo is the new representative for District 3, and JD Mazuera Arias was sworn in to represent District 5. For the first time, District 6 in south Charlotte will […]
Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Moore County Schools Superintendent Tim Locklair, a district native who rose from the school system’s student body to its teaching ranks to the top job, announced on Monday that he is retiring from his position effective March 1, 2026. A graduate of Pinecrest High School, Locklair became schools superintendent in […]
Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The town of Clyde has a unique gift in store for its volunteer board members this Christmas: Elk Bucks. The Haywood-specific gift cards can be used at over 120 participating small businesses within the county. While Elk Bucks started as a tourism initiative, anyone can now buy the Elk Bucks gift […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView The Cumberland County Commissioners voted 6-1 on Monday to reelect Kirk deViere to serve as chairman for the next year. The board also voted 5-2 to reelect Commissioner Veronica Jones to be the vice chair. Following the votes, deViere made a short speech to the board listing his priorities for the next 12 […]
Part of the new plan for improving customer service at the Division of Motor Vehicles calls for at least a partial reconsideration of the licensing system for teen drivers the state instituted in the late 1990s. DMV’s strategic plan calls for a study of “elements of the Graduated License Process for effectiveness,” via the N.C. […]
The State Health Plan is out of the woods financially, at least for the short term, but members are likely to see further premium and benefits changes in 2027, its executive administrator says. Thanks in part to the rate and benefit changes previously approved, “we are not going to be in a deficit for 2026 […]
The Stein administration’s plan to bolster rural healthcare program isn’t bold enough or innovative enough, at least in the eyes of State Treasurer Brad Briner and his aides. “We would have preferred a more transformative approach to actually deal with the dis-economies of scale that are endemic to rural health, through [the] use of technology, […]
Filing for the 2026 election opened on Monday and we’re already starting to see some primaries shape up. These are headlined, of course, by the Republican-side Phil Berger-Sam Page tilt for the state Senate District 26 seat representing Rockingham and rural Guilford counties. As of this writing (just before 5 p.m. on Monday) that’s the […]
Back in October, state investment managers sold off $6.4 million in Israeli government bonds. Now, pro-Palestinian activists are claiming this as a victory for their boycott and divestment campaign. “We feel very confident that this decision represents the power of people’s voices from across the state who have called attention to these problematic investments,” said […]
