WUNC News A public hearing at the Durham County Courthouse on February 4, 2026 regarding Duke Energy’s latest proposed plan to reduce carbon emissions. The utility is required under state law to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. At a public hearing Wednesday at the Durham County Courthouse, about a dozen people offered feedback to the […]
Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News When people qualify for Medicaid after a medical emergency, the program can currently reach back up to three months to pay for care they received before they applied — a safeguard that often prevents a hospital stay or ambulance ride from turning into lifelong debt. That protection is about to shrink. […]
Jessie Pounds/Education NC Health care, construction trades, and child care career education are among top priorities local elected officials recently shared they would like to see Central Carolina Community College (CCCC) focus on in the next year. CCCC invited Chatham, Harnett, and Lee county commissioners, state legislators, and congressional leaders to a breakfast at CCCC’s […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise City officials say they don’t yet know the local impact of a planned merger of two paint companies that have a combined 500 employees in High Point. AkzoNobel shareholders would own a majority of the combined company if its merger with Axalta goes through, as announced three months ago. Both […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView Godwin’s town commissioner elections from November cannot be trusted, the Cumberland County Board of Elections unanimously decided on Friday, based on its conclusion that the former town clerk could have influenced voters with text messages and telephone calls. The board’s vote is a recommendation to the North Carolina State Board of Elections, which […]
Port City Daily At nearly 7 a.m. Thursday, Bald Head Island Ferry’s “The Patriot” ran aground on a shoaling just outside the harbor. 105 passengers and three crewmembers were aboard the vessel, though there were no reported injuries, according to Bion Stewart, Bald Head Island Transportation’s vice president of operations. The Patriot services employees and […]
Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio North Carolina health officials are reporting 17 measles cases in the state since December. The United States is experiencing a major measles outbreak, with close to 1,000 cases in nearby South Carolina. While North Carolina’s total is far lower, the latest figure represents two more cases of the disease just this week. […]
Lora Lavigne/WRAL News The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles is scaling back service hours at dozens of driver license offices across the state, a move that could add to frustrations for customers already facing long wait times and limited appointment availability. Beginning Monday, Feb. 9, the DMV will no longer offer extended early morning […]
A decade and a half on, some legislators are having second thoughts about the system they and former Gov. Pat McCrory ushered in to take some of the politics out of funding road projects. The state’s prioritization system is shortchanging local-level projects and also pushing “P3” initiatives — toll roads — to the forefront, Sens. […]
N.C. Department of Transportation officials say they’re “moving forward” with the idea of building a deck atop part of Interstate 77 in Charlotte to add express toll lanes to the highway. Radical though it may be, DOT says the proposal seems the “least impactful design alternative” for some of the neighborhoods surrounding the interstate. “Community […]
WNCN News A month after taking legal action against North Carolina State University over the toxic chemical exposure in Poe Hall, former students and staff have filed a lawsuit against a chemical company connected to the building. Poe Hall has been closed since November 2023 after testing determined the presence of toxic chemicals called polychlorinated […]
Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio The town of Canton could be the latest North Carolina municipality to ban cryptocurrency mining and data centers. Last month, the town board passed a resolution to hold a public hearing on the matter on Feb. 11, after multiple companies contacted community leaders to see if they could use the […]
Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News The State Board of Education has set its priorities for the upcoming legislative short session, approving a more than $1 billion set of requests for state lawmakers on a split 8-2 vote. The requests include a new special education funding formula, costing about $200 million. They also include more school health professionals, […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView Cumberland County’s leaders want the state legislature to give them $98.5 million for water and sewer construction, school maintenance and construction—including a new E.E. Smith High School—mental health services, construction of a regional aquatics center, and emergency responder equipment. However, they may not ask for the full amount, depending on what they glean […]
Rachel Crumpler/Carolina Public Press Five prison employees were killed in North Carolina in 2017 — four from a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional Institution and another in an attack at Bertie Correctional Institution. It was the deadliest year for prison staff in state history. Investigations that followed pointed to understaffing as a central factor. […]
