Gov. Josh Stein and the Trump administration agree data centers should bear the cost of any new power-generation capacity they require. Stein recently joined two U.S. cabinet secretaries and a bipartisan coalition of Mid-Atlantic and Midwest governors in urging the PJM Interconnection to revamp its pricing and resource planning. PJM runs the wholesale electricity market for […]
N.C. Senate budget negotiators appear to have given up on securing $638 million for the proposed NC Children’s Hospital in southern Wake County. Instead, their focus is now on securing $103.5 million for the project’s financing, part of a previous authorisation in 2023 to spend approximately $320 million. UNC Health and Duke Health are partnering […]
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down work on Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. U.S. District Court Judge Jamar Walker ruled both that Dominion’s “likely to prevail” in its lawsuit against the administration’s stop-work order and that it needs a preliminary injunction to protect its interests. Dominion responded […]
Ben Briscoe/WFMY News New research shows tariffs are costing North Carolina farmers nearly $700 million and threatening thousands of jobs. Tariffs designed to protect American manufacturing are having an unintended side effect for North Carolina farmers driving up costs and shrinking overseas markets. On his farm, Mike Jones says the impact is hard to miss. […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press For months, Adrian Pitts followed the news with bated breath as Congress fought — and eventually shut down the federal government — over whether to extend COVID-era subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace health plans. Pitts, a 57-year-old small business owner and Hendersonville resident, was one of the beneficiaries of the […]
Sydney Lupkin/WUNC News Since September, 16 major drug companies have inked deals with the Trump administration to lower prices. But in January — the time of year when pharmaceutical companies typically roll out price hikes — all 16 companies released higher list prices for some of their drugs. The agreements, nicknamed “most favored nation” deals, […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Restoring land as close to how it was more than two centuries ago is by no means a cheap venture. Just ask Louis Moore Bacon. Since 2012, Bacon has invested more than $100 million in the property on which his ancestor, Roger Moore, founded Orton Plantation in 1725 off the lower […]
Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer An election for register of deeds is often overlooked as a sleeper race, but in Haywood County, the race has taken an interesting turn — with the sanctity of the county’s property deeds and vital records on the line. On one side is an experienced, stalwart staffer backed by long-time outgoing […]
Nick Fogleman/Watauga Democrat The Town of Boone Planning Board unanimously recommended approval of a multi-family housing development on Greenway Road following a lengthy public hearing that focused on parking, traffic, stormwater and the environmental remediation of a former industrial brownfield site. Representatives of RK Investments presented a design for the 16.03-acre site of the former […]
Kristen Blair/Education NC North Carolina’s Charter Schools Review Board (CSRB) approved renewals for 37 charter schools at its meeting on Monday, Jan. 12. The schools comprise nearly 18% of the state’s 211 charter schools and represent the “largest number of renewals” in recent years, according to Bruce Friend, the CSRB’s chair. Twenty schools received 10-year […]
Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise The city’s jobless rate edged up in November but still remained within the parameters of a healthy job market. The rate was 4.9%, up from 4.5% in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That also compares to and 4.2% in November 2024. There were no unemployment […]
Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily New Hanover County commissioners agreed Thursday to seek a third-party to evaluate its landfill operations, as 30 years remain on the site’s life without any space to expand. Director of Recycling and Solid Waste Joy Suleyman told commissioners Thursday a consultant would bring in “a fresh set of eyes.” “Tell us […]
WFDD Radio Federal prosecutors have revealed a sprawling scheme to rig college basketball games while yielding big payouts to gamblers. According to an indictment unsealed Thursday, fixers started with two professional games in China before turning their focus to recruiting college players in America to participate in similar point-shaving efforts as recently as January 2025. […]
North Carolina’s bankers are no happier than their New York colleagues with President Donald Trump’s proposal for a one-year, 10% cap on credit-card interest. Such a move would “eliminate credit card access for millions of Americans and thousands of North Carolinians,” said Peter Gwaltney, president of the N.C. Bankers Association. He added that the move […]
Former UNC Chapel Hill trustee John Preyer resigned to devote more time to his own business and not in response to pressure from the UNC System or any other source, one of his allies on the board says. “He was not asked to leave by anyone,” trustee Marty Kotis said on Thursday. “This was his […]
