Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline State House Democratic lawmakers announced a bill on Tuesday aimed at protecting students in schools from the impact of immigration operations in North Carolina. Named for a landmark Supreme Court case that prohibited schools from discriminating against undocumented students, House Bill 1061: The Plyler Educational Protections Act, would bar public schools from […]
Claire Galofaro & Sally Ho/The Associated Press She was 13 years old and scared of the dark when she arrived at a residential treatment center that had promised her adoptive parents it would help her heal — from the pain of not knowing who her mother was or why she’d given her away. Kate plugged […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square For short session priorities, Medicaid is off the board and headed to the desk of first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein for signature. Health Care Practitioner Transparency Act, as House Bill 696 is known, passed 112-3 in the House of Representatives late Tuesday afternoon and a little while later 45-3 in the […]
WRAL News Saint Augustine’s University has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to court documents filed Monday in the Eastern District of North Carolina. Chapter 11 allows an organization to reorganize its debt so it can remain operating. “This structured, court-supervised process will enable SAU to organize its financial affairs in an orderly and transparent […]
The Southern Pines Pilot Pinehurst Resort and Lexus have announced a new partnership naming the luxury automaker as the “Preferred Vehicle” of Pinehurst Resort. In a release, Pinehurst said the collaboration of the two “iconic brands rooted in craftsmanship, heritage and innovation” marks Pinehurst’s first shared brand partnership with the United States Golf Association (USGA), […]
Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh While the Raleigh metro area was one of the biggest winners for jobs last year, it was a completely different story in the Durham-Chapel Hill metro. Why it matters: Durham shed around 3,800 jobs in 2025, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The losses appear to be […]
Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Roughly two months after receiving objections from state officials, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is working to revise its report on the proposed deepening of Wilmington’s harbor. North Carolina’s Division of Coastal Management issued an objection in February to the proposed project that would deepen Wilmington’s harbor from 42 feet to […]
Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio North Carolina is approaching its eighth month of drought. And it seems increasingly likely that we’ll see mandatory water restrictions put in place, something the state hasn’t seen since its worst drought on record in 2007. WFAE’s Zachary Turner spoke with Bryan Walsh, the vice president of regulated renewables at Duke Energy, […]
Forrest Tucker/WBTV NEWS Camp North End’s businesses were split on whether or not to enact a curfew for unaccompanied minors according to one business owner who spoke to WBTV. The new curfew went into place for the first time on the weekend on Saturday, April 25. Under the new policy, anyone under the age of […]
Hannah Hall/WECT Cape Fear Community College (CFCC) has crafted a new program offering for students. According to CFCC, a new commercial craft brewing program will launch at the downtown Wilmington campus this summer. CFCC said students will have the ability to learn about the brewing process through classroom instruction and real-world experience, as well as […]
Another Mecklenburg County legislator who lost in March’s Democratic Party primaries has turned in his membership card. District 99 Rep. Nasif Majeed announced via social media that he’s changing his affiliation from Democratic to unaffiliated. Majeed — an 80-year-old who piloted B-52s during the Vietnam War — said his move is “rooted in my responsibility […]
In case anyone needed a reminder after Senate leader Phil Berger’s GOP primary loss, a new poll suggests many North Carolinians would oppose having a casino built in their county. Commissioned by Locke Foundation co-founder and former President Marc Rotterman, the survey found that 56% of the 600 likely voters question would oppose casino development […]
Granville County isn’t one of Senate Bill 214’s direct targets, but it’s standing with the communities that are in the crosshairs of water-and-condemnation rights battle with Franklin County. That includes opposing the measure “by any means necessary,” Granville commissioners say in a resolution opposing the bill. Members clarified by that, they mean going to court, if […]
Senate Democratic Leader Sydney Batch, D-Wake, has walked back her caucus’s support of the Medicaid rebase bill that it has already voted in favor of passing. She put out a letter on Friday asking the Senate’s Republican leaders to pull back the bill and rewrite it to drop three of its provisions. One of those […]
Franklin County officials say that while they remain willing to negotiate for access to Kerr Lake’s water, they want condemnation rights in Vance County to use as leverage to ensure talks play out in their favor. Senate Bill 214’s provision on the matter “gives Franklin County a tool it may need,” they say via a […]
