Brandon Kingdollar, Clayton Henkel & Laura Leslie/NC Newsline Thousands of educators, advocates and allies converged on Raleigh Friday, demanding higher pay for teachers, more state support per student, more childcare funding, and more funding for special education. The May Day rally crowd, dressed in red, nearly filled Halifax Mall, the open area behind the state […]
David Wallis/WUNC News Fidel Rivera’s recently purchased two-story, white concrete house in a Merida suburb does not yet feel like a home. The walls lack much decoration, the furniture is limited and Fidel palpably pines for his family in North Carolina: “That was my everything, my family.” Last October, as ICE raids escalated throughout the […]
Destinee Patterson & Kirstyn Clark/WRAL News The Cary Town Council approved the first step in creating the South Hills Municipal Service District on Thursday. The council voted to direct staff to prepare a report. Staff will then make the report available to the public before holding a public hearing. The decision came as questions lingered […]
Paul Woolverton/CityView The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners on Monday selected a design for a shelter and services center for homeless people that they plan to open by the end of 2027. The design sets the shape of the building and determines where different parts will be, such as courtyards, sleeping areas, classrooms, communal space, […]
WRAL News Painted Tree Boutiques vendors will have another chance to sell their items after the Cary marketplace closed abruptly last month. A sale will be held Saturday and Sunday at Monarch Logistics at 8808 Running Oak Drive in Raleigh. Sunday’s shopping hours are from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. “This event brings together multiple […]
Ana Risano/The Southern Pines Pilot Vass is growing. There’s no question about it as new homes and subdivisions pop up along the main arteries in town. Once empty roadways are now congested with commuters and construction vehicles. Open farmlands and wooded lots are becoming new homes with driveways and fenced backyards. But the beating heart […]
Rachel Moody/WFAE Radio In Durham, Lev Marushevskyi cheers on the Triangle Math and Science Academy Tigers as they make a “kill” in a recent match. They’re playing against their rivals, The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Unicorns. Marushevskyi graduated last year and is now a student at UNC-Chapel Hill. But he’s still passionate […]
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 […]
