Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina posted a $497.3 million loss in calendar 2025, a report to the N.C. Department of Insurance says. The loss comes after BCBSNC netted $68.5 million in calendar 2024. “Like insurers nationwide, [BCBSNC] faced significant cost pressures in 2025 as health care costs continued to rise across the system,” […]
State Rep. Bryan Cohn, D-Granville, says he’s signaled to the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate that he’s willing to step in as a replacement for former Sen. Terence Everitt. “We’ve got the donors, the infrastructure [and] the network,” Cohn says. Everitt, D-Wake, announced Tuesday evening, on Facebook, that he was resigning to focus […]
Sponsors of a pending bill that would restrict children’s access to social-media sites are touting the fact one of the top social-media sites has had a hand in writing it. Meta — the corporate umbrella for Facebook — “gave us great suggestions and helped us to really tweak it,” say Rep. Jeff Zenger, R-Forsyth, lead […]
Senate leaders have begun pushing through committee a bill that would freeze property value assessments for a year in a handful of the state’s counties, they say to buy time for a broader rethink of property tax policy. Senate Bill 889 — sponsored by among others Senate leader Phil Berger — cleared the chamber’s Finance […]
North Carolina’s ski industry wants legislators to revamp the state laws that regulate it, to among other things cap jury awards in accident-liability cases. A committee substitute for Senate Bill 648 discussed Tuesday in House Judiciary 2 would impose a $1 million cap — adjusted for present value — on the total damages a jury […]
House and Senate negotiators have dropped the idea of giving Franklin County a clear lane to acquire land in neighboring counties to gain access to the waters of Kerr Lake — for now. Released Tuesday afternoon, a freshly revised version of Senate Bill 214 omits language that would’ve let Franklin officials condemn land in Vance, […]
House Democrats and a Democratic senator have rolled out separate bills that begin to spell out a different approach to the data center boom than the state’s taken to date. One of the bills, House Bill 1063, counts House Democratic Leader Robert Reives, D-Chatham, and much of the chamber’s Democratic caucus as sponsors. It comes […]
