Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Think about how much you’ve spent every time you’ve filled your car up with gas lately. Now, imagine your car is a bus. And you have 178 of them that need to be on the road every day, transporting thousands of kids to and from school. You might feel a little bit […]
Brian Murphy, Will Doran & Jack Hagel/WRAL News As co-favorites to win the Stanley Cup before the season and the second choice when the playoffs started, the Carolina Hurricanes were a popular pick for bettors. Many fans are invested, through those bets, as the team faces off in the final against the Vegas Golden Knights. […]
Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News Duke Energy could receive $28.4 million in taxpayer money to upgrade two coal-fired power units in Person County, North Carolina, where residents are already contending with the construction of new natural gas plants, a pipeline and a proposed Microsoft data center. The Roxboro plant in Person County is one of 13 […]
Kelly Kenoyer/WHQR The analysis indicates that growth within urban areas can be better for cities’ bottom line, compared to building on greenfield sites at the outer reaches of town. New research from the PEW Charitable Trust shows that infill development saves taxpayers money, especially compared to development on the outlying stretches of a city. Researchers […]
Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz A stretch of ocean off the coast of Brunswick County made national news earlier this year when the Trump administration announced plans to pay French energy company TotalEnergies to relinquish its lease in the area, along with another lease off New York. The deal has drawn mixed reactions from groups that for years […]
Taylor Knopf/NC Health News For the third year in a row, drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have trended downward. North Carolina had one of the largest year-over-year decreases — a nearly 29 percent drop in overdose deaths from the end of 2024 to 2025. Substance use experts worry these hard-fought gains could now be […]
Liz Schlemmer/WUNC News Chapel Hill – Carrboro City Schools’ board of education voted to close Glenwood Elementary. After months of community deliberation over a decision to close at least one elementary school, the Chapel Hill – Carrboro City school board voted unanimously Thursday night to close Glenwood Elementary in Fall 2027. It was one of […]
Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise A bill in the N.C. General Assembly that would place a moratorium this year on counties using changes in property tax revenue from revaluation would cost Guilford County $93 million and wipe out most increases in local funding for the new fiscal year, a county official said Thursday. Deputy […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Last year, the International Military Sports Council — which is based in Belgium — announced that the eighth Military World Games would be held in Charlotte in the summer of 2027. The games’ motto is “Friendship Through Sport” and local organizers say 8,000 athletes and 2,000 delegates will come to the Carolinas. It […]
Adam Wagner/NC Newsroom The N.C. State Health Plan Board of Trustees voted Friday to make changes to Medicare Advantage plans used by about 175,000 state retirees, increasing healthcare costs to help the Health Plan save millions. Under the changes that will be implemented in 2027, out-of-pocket maximums for those on the base plan increased from […]
The Associated Press Richard Childress had hoped to announce a contract extension for Kyle Busch at Michigan International Speedway. Instead, the longtime owner of Richard Childress Racing held a news conference Saturday at the track to publicly address the unexpected death of Kyle Busch for the first time since the two-time Cup Series champion died […]
House members have passed and returned to the Senate an omnibus regulatory reform bill that among other things instructs local governments in parts of the state to allow more home construction. The 85-28 vote on Senate Bill 445 came after large, bipartisan majorities rejected amendments proposed by Rep. Jay Adams, R-Catawba, that would’ve further limited […]
NC Chamber leaders want the state to begin looking at reactivating an abandoned rail corridor that would connect Wilmington and its port to the Goldsboro area. The first order of business for restoring the line from Wallace in Duplin County to Castle Hayne in New Hanover County is obtaining an “updated, fully scoped engineering and […]
Federal regulators in March warned Hendrick Automotive and several other North Carolina car dealers against advertising their vehicles for prices lower than what they actually charge customers. The warning letters from the Federal Trade Commission stopped short of accusing the dealerships of wrongdoing, but they did encourage them to “review [their] practices.” “We will continue […]
The House’s involuntary-commitment reform bill includes provisions that ask UNC Health to consider taking over the operations of North Carolina’s three state-owned psychiatric hospitals. House Bill 1104 wants an answer from UNC Health by December. It also gives the system the option of taking over only “certain operations,” or of suggesting lesser moves that could […]
