Amber Gaudet/The Charlotte Observer A Charlotte-based hair restoration surgeon cannot reapply for his North Carolina medical license until at least 2027, the state medical board announced Thursday. The board indefinitely suspended the license of Dr. Bruce Howard Marko following his role in a $17 million, multi-state bank fraud scheme that began in 2018. Marko, now […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise South University in High Point wants to be synonymous with academic programming in health care, specifically nursing. Gone are the days when it offered undergraduate and graduate degrees across several fields, including accounting. It recently moved to an expanded space off N.C. 68 at 4050 Premier Drive, directly across the […]
Kirstyn Clark/WRAL News The City of Raleigh is taking another step in its transformation of Dorothea Dix Park with the demolition of four buildings. Four buildings on the west side of the former hospital campus, known as the Adams, Ashby, Kirby and Williams buildings, will soon be demolished. According to Dix Park, the project is […]
UNC Chapel Hill officials have walked back a vice provost’s statement that they’re investigating the student group Hill After Hours over a video lampooning attitudes toward the South Campus dorms. “Please be assured that we are not investigating any student or student group” in connection to that, or to The Daily Tar Heel’s since-repudiated April […]
State Auditor Dave Boliek says Baptists on Mission’s taxpayer-subsidized home-repair effort in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene has complied with all the state’s requirements. It also “met people in [the region] where they needed to be met, and did so with a sense of urgency,” he said Friday after his office released a short […]
North Carolina’s public universities mint lots of new engineers every year, but a UNC System analysis says they’re still not turning out enough. But that doesn’t exactly make engineering unique. The system’s new Workforce Alignment Report says the state’s economy can use … well, more of everything. “North Carolina has a strong and growing economy […]
State Rep. Pricey Harrison isn’t the only North Carolina voice weighing in with the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of its review of a product-liability verdict against Monsanto over the Roundup weedkiller. The N.C. Farm Bureau, and the NC Chamber, signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief that sides with Monsanto. They argue that the German-owned company’s […]
UNC Chapel Hill is in trouble with one of the country’s top free-speech advocacy groups. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression — more popularly known as FIRE — wants campus administrators to retract their criticism of The Daily Tar Heel’s April Fools edition. They’re also calling on them to end a Student Affairs investigation […]
Colin Campbell/WUNC News The state’s Utilities Commission will soon decide whether Duke Energy can increase residential electric rates by up to 18% over two years. It’s the first big decision for the commission since it shifted to a Republican majority. In late 2024, the legislature took an appointment to the Utilities Commission away from the […]
Adam Wagner/WFDD Radio By the time David Batts spoke in front of the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners, they had already changed its zoning ordinance to allow data centers and cryptomining facilities to be built in the Kingsboro Industrial Park. The next decision was whether the county should sell 120 acres it owns to developer […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press When AdventHealth broke ground on its long-awaited Weaverville hospital on March 26, the Florida-based health system envisioned a hospital with hundreds of beds — one which could eventually rival that of HCA-owned Mission Hospital, which currently dominates the Asheville market. That plan, however, was thrown into doubt last week when the […]
Lena Geller/IndyWeek When you’re a kid, there’s something about a vacant space that announces itself as a clubhouse; it couldn’t be more apparent that the shed in the backyard needs a rug and a password and a sign on the door. Most people lose that impulse somewhere along the way. Kelly Creedon never did. A […]
Jo Napolitano/The74 While some might envision Gen Z welcoming artificial intelligence into their lives, a new Gallup survey finds people between the ages of 14 and 29 are becoming increasingly skeptical of — and downright mad at — AI. Compared to a similar survey last year, they’re less excited and hopeful about the change it […]
Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily Uncertainty and a lack of clear answers now surround Pender County’s controversial 2026 property revaluation after commissioners abruptly suspended the use of newly aggregated data, leaving the county — and its municipalities — in limbo during the height of budget season. Local governments rely on updated property values countywide to calculate […]
Ben Humphries/Education NC North Carolina school districts are facing an uncertain budgeting season as both federal and state funding sources hang in the balance. Over the last year, school districts have seen cuts to federal education grant programs and no pay raises for teachers after the General Assembly failed to pass a comprehensive state budget. […]
