Greater Fayetteville Business Journal Cape Fear Valley Health is expanding access to behavioral health services with the opening of the new Community Mental Health Center – Dunn on June 22. Located at 805 Tilghman Drive, Suite A, the new clinic will provide comprehensive mental health services for children, teens, and adults throughout Dunn and the […]
North Carolina’s State Investment Authority put $250 million into AI firm Anthropic back in the winter when the San Francisco company sought $30 billion in Series G venture capital, State Treasurer Brad Briner says. The purchase ’s value has since grown to $650 million, and it’s possible that even greater returns will come the state’s […]
Atrium Health and WakeMed officials discussed their proposed combination with Wake County Commissioners Monday after producing a 61-page document providing more explanation of the deal. The two hospital systems held a secret meeting with the commission in mid-March, but didn’t disclose their plans until Friday, May 4, when it was included on a meeting agenda. […]
Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s office wants the N.C. Utilities Commission to give Duke Energy’s return on equity a haircut as it considers the utility’s request for a rate increase. “We think they overshot the mark,” Jackson says of Duke’s request. Duke’s rate request for 2027 and 2028 asks the commission to allow it a 10.95% […]
Mark Bergin/WRAL News The Raleigh City Council unanimously passed a $1.77 billion budget on Monday. The fiscal year 2027 budget includes a 1.7 cent property tax increase per $100 of assessed value. It means about $67 more per year for a median Raleigh home, which costs about $450,000. “The Proposed Budget protects our existing services […]
Democrats in Granville and Vance counties need to find themselves a new candidate for the House District 32 seat. The previous nominee, Oxford City Commissioner Curtis McRae, is withdrawing from the race “due to personal health matters requiring his full attention,” the House Democratic Caucus says. McRae — who’s also an associate warden at the […]
Come July, it appears likely State Health Plan trustees are likely to approve an expansion of the plan’s “preferred provider” program intended to steer members to lower-cost hospitals, clinics and doctors. The docket for next month’s trustee meeting will include votes both on the framework, premiums and provider contracts for the program, says Tom Friedman, […]
Jennifer Fernandez & Ashley Fredde/NC Health News Outrage over the death of Moore County toddler Rylan Ott in 2016 compelled North Carolina on a path to improve its child welfare system. Nearly a decade later, the state has rolled out several of those reforms — a statewide office focused on preventing child fatalities, regional supervisory […]
Lucas Thomae Facebook/Carolina Public Press After an exceptionally dry spring, North Carolina’s farmers are in need of several timely rains. According to state corn extension specialist Ron Heiniger, “that’s like trying to hit the perfect lotto numbers.” Such precision when it comes to the weather usually isn’t required for a successful crop, but most of […]
Mary Helen Moore/Axios Raleigh In some Wake County waterways, signs announce to anglers that the fish cannot, under any circumstances, be eaten. Why it matters: Eating lots of freshwater fish in North Carolina comes with health risks because of the widespread presence of mercury in the environment. Total bans are uncommon, though. This one is […]
Liz Schlemmer/WUNC News North Carolina’s school calendar law requires most traditional public schools to start no earlier than August 24 this fall. The 2004 law originally came out of lobbying from the coastal tourism industry to extend the summer busy season through August. The state board of education received a report this week that found […]
Brian Murphy/WRAL News A billionaire investor in multiple major U.S. sports teams wants to bring a Major League Baseball team to Raleigh. The news? It’s not Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon, who has long professed his desire to bring a team to the area. Marc Lasry, the co-founder and chief executive of Avenue Sports Fund, […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Nearly a dozen abandoned marine vessels left to rot in North Carolina’s coastal waters are expected to be removed by July. Crews this week pulled a dilapidated commercial fishing trawler and a sunken cabin cruiser from Wheeler Creek, a working waterway nestled off the New River in Sneads Ferry. Mainstream Commercial […]
Aaron Keck/WCHL Chapelboro Voicing a desire to better fund its public school systems while managing funding losses for other areas of government operations, the Orange County Board of Commissioners is poised to further raise taxes in its final budget for the upcoming fiscal year. During the board’s budget amendment work session on Thursday, the county […]
Mackenzie Thomas/Hendersonville Lightning A former North Carolina resident is asking the state to reconsider criminal charges against her that have been hanging over her head for the past decade. Joanne McDowell, a resident of Hendersonville for roughly five years until December 2012, reached out to the North Carolina Department of Justice on May 11 by […]
