Legislators are looking at a couple bills that would make it harder to convert farmland into other uses. The current draft of the 2025 Farm Act includes a provision that would allow local governments to reject special-use permits for non-residential development they think will “have a negative impact on agricultural production.” Another proposal, Rep. Jeff […]
Lobbyists play an essential role in every state capital, helping keep the wheels turning while elected leaders and top state agency executives make the final decisions. Unlike the politicians, the lobbyists largely operate under the radar. Here’s the inaugural N.C. Tribune and Business North Carolina listing of the state’s leading lobbyists, an effort to spread […]
David Mildenberg/Business North Carolina Skepticism from top state and local officials over his latest deal isn’t denting Donald Gintzig’s love affair with Atrium Health, which extends back years and heated up over the past two years. The CEO of WakeMed, Raleigh’s largest hospital, says “there was only one partner worth talking to with that culture, […]
Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog At HCA Healthcare’s April 23 shareholder meeting, CEO Sam Hazen pushed back on claims that he needed to do more to engage with Mission Hospital, which faces a fast-approaching deadline to fix deficiencies in care or face the loss of Medicare and Medicaid funding. “In my normal travels, I go to Asheville, […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Charlotte City Council voted Monday night to withdraw its support for the proposed Interstate 77 toll lanes from uptown to the South Carolina line, a stunning reversal on the multibillion-dollar highway expansion. In a letter sent to Lyles on May 15, Johnson said federal law would require the NCDOT to remove […]
Rose Hoban/NC Health News Finley Thomas is an 11-year-old girl who’s got a morning makeup and skin care routine. She loves Halloween, dressing up, her older brothers and cheering with her squad. She also uses a wheelchair, has a tracheostomy tube that gets hooked up to a ventilator at night, receives tube feedings for much […]
Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press After a series of amendments that North Carolina lawmakers have made over several years to the charter school review and approval process, stand-alone remote charter schools are on the rise. The Charter School Review Board approved several new institutions earlier this year that will be started by existing charter schools but […]
Brianna Atkinson/WUNC News UNC Pembroke is partnering with five rural North Carolina school districts to address teacher shortages in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) field. The public university is launching a grant program for aspiring STEM teachers, offering to cover their education costs in exchange for students promising to teach in high-need areas […]
Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer Standing in an empty concrete drive that will one day house Canton’s new, flood-proof, right-sized sewer treatment plant, Governor Josh Stein announced on Thursday an additional $3.5 million in state funding coming to Canton and Haywood. Haywood County, and Canton in particularly, has seen a dozen visits from the governor over […]
Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The company that owns the majority of High Point Market showroom space this week announced several changes to its executive team. Andmore CEO Jon Pertchik will retire, and Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel Katie Potter, along with Chief Technology Officer Landon Williams, will step down from the company May […]
David Ford/WFDD Radio After a quarter century and $54 million, Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway is officially open. On a sunny and warm late morning, about an hour before the big ribbon-cutting ceremony for the multi-use path that surrounds the Gate City, people have already begun gathering at the Guilford Avenue entrance to the Greenway, just blocks […]
Trevon McGlone/The Sampson Independent Roseboro residents should not expect to see a rise in their property taxes for the 2026-27 fiscal year, however they are likely to see increases in how much they pay for sewer and garbage services, if the proposed budget is passed. As it currently stands, the town of Roseboro will maintain […]
Adam Wagner/WUNC News State economists expect North Carolina to collect $71.2 billion in revenue across the 2025 and 2026 fiscal years, according to an updated revenue forecast released Friday. That’s an increase of about $1.3 billion since a March projection and about $2.7 billion from the state’s certified budget. The projections come from the Office […]
James Farrell/WFAE Radio Mecklenburg County Manager Michael Bryant made his official budget recommendation to the county board of commissioners Thursday, and the $2.6 billion spending plan keeps the property tax rate steady at 49.27 cents per $100 of assessed value. County officials have been warning about a storm of headwinds this year: slowing revenue growth, […]
Dwayne Yancey/Cardinal News When surveyors from Virginia and North Carolina set out in 1728 to determine just where the border between them lay, the assignment seemed simple enough: Draw a straight line. The work turned out not to be so straightforward. They set out on March 27 but the weather soon turned warm enough “to […]
