Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Board of Education tabled a vote on the local budget request Tuesday night as members consider how much to ask county commissioners for. Teachers and staff rallied outside the WS/FCS education building ahead of the board’s meeting. They held signs urging members to “just ask for what students […]
Cameron Blue/The High Point Enterprise A day after Thomasville City Schools Superintendent Quincy Williams announced his resignation, the board of education on Tuesday approved a resolution urging the N.C. General Assembly to pass a budget for the 2027 fiscal year. The school system receives roughly 55.9% of its funding from state appropriations and builds its […]
Will Atwater/NC Health News Tropical Storm Helene’s impact on western North Carolina was felt acutely in the days, weeks and months after the storm, including in the region’s hospitals and clinics. New research shows how pregnant patients and people with anxiety and other health issues turned to emergency departments for treatment when primary care practices […]
Will Doran & Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News State lawmakers voted Wednesday to advance a proposed constitutional amendment that would give the state more control over how much cities and counties can raise property taxes. “The question this committee is answering is whether North Carolinians should be protected from continual, unsustainable, unpredictable property tax increases or not,” […]
Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi/The Raleigh News & Observer The North Carolina State Health Plan has scrapped its initial search for a new health insurer to serve as its administrator after no bidders met minimum requirements, resetting the search process for a program covering over 500,000 state employees, retirees and dependents. The plan issued the request […]
Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView The Fayetteville City Council narrowly voted Monday to pause its work on a proposed data center ordinance and instead seek more information about a possible data center moratorium—a decision reached after a heated debate and amid loud, organized public opposition. The move places Fayetteville squarely inside a fast‑growing statewide, national and global […]
Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh After hitting the doldrums in the years after the pandemic, demand for office space in the Triangle and Charlotte appears to be picking up momentum. Why it matters: Vacancy rates at office towers from downtowns to suburban office parks spiked after the pandemic as companies downsized and offered workers greater flexibility for […]
WWAY News Lower Cape Fear LifeCare has named Karen Brubaker Miller as its next president and chief executive officer following a national search. According to LifeCare, Brubaker Miller will become only the fourth CEO in the organization’s 46-year history, succeeding Gwen Whitley. The organization said its board of directors partnered with a national search firm […]
Kimberly King/WLOS News Asheville leaders, business owners and community partners gathered at The Orange Peel on Tuesday, April 14, for the annual State of Downtown, as the area faces ongoing challenges following Helene and a $30 million budget shortfall. Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer addressed the crowd of nearly 300 people at this year’s event, highlighting […]
Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Nearly half of all people detained by federal immigration agents during “Operation Charlotte’s Web” last November had no criminal record, according to new data obtained by the Deportation Data Project. The records show that 402 people were arrested in North Carolina during the first week of the operation, from Nov. 15 to […]
Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press A review of the state’s juvenile detention centers by a state advocacy group, which concluded with a report in February, revealed excessive use of solitary confinement at multiple facilities, even though the practice is banned in North Carolina. One mountain county juvenile facility was forced to close during the course of […]
Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer The town of Canton hopes to use a $2.7 million windfall from a lawsuit against Pactiv Evergreen to do what the former paper mill owner failed to do: provide jobs in the manufacturing sector. The state sued Pactiv Evergreen after the mill closure for not living up to the terms of […]
A state law that allows Duke Energy to file rate plans lasting less than three years is anti-consumer, according to two members of the N.C. Utilities Commission. It allows Duke to reap the benefit “of performance-based regulation” while avoiding a third-year cap on rate increases, commissioners Donald van der Vaart and John Gajda say. Moreover, nothing […]
North Carolina’s primary rainy-day fund had $3.6 billion as of last summer, which would fund about 42 days’ worth of state spending, a drop-off in reserves that parallels national trends, the Pew Charitable Trusts say. The state is two years — and a devastating hurricane — down the road from a mid-2023 peak that saw […]
Republican leaders in Jackson, Swain and Transylvania counties have picked Anna Ferguson to fill out the balance of the late Rep. Mike Clampitt’s term in office. Ferguson will also replace Clampitt on the November general election ballot, the Smoky Mountain News reported. She will face Democratic nominee Mark Burrows. The decision came a bit less […]
