Brian Gordon/The Raleigh News & Observer In a unanimous, bipartisan ruling this spring, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accused Durham company American Efficient of operating “one of the largest and most brazen fraud schemes” in the agency’s 49-year history. “We have never been faced before with a scam that robbed ratepayers of hundreds of millions […]
Hannah Leyva/WNCN Amid an ongoing nationwide outbreak of a parasite that causes intestinal illnesses, Wake County Public Health has launched a webpage that will be updated daily to keep residents informed. Cyclosporiasis, often also called cyclospora, is a sickness caused by a microscopic parasite that can sicken people who swallow it in contaminated food and […]
Elizabeth Casolo/Becker’s Payer Issues CVS Health CEO David Joyner is skeptical as to whether the evidence backs GLP-1 investment right now. “Everybody intuitively believes these medications create long-term health benefits, but the evidence hasn’t yet demonstrated that paying today’s prices generates enough downstream savings,” he said in a July 12 report from The Washington Post. […]
Chloe Collins/Gaston Gazette Gaston County Schools will not close W.B. Beam Intermediate School ahead of the 2026-27 school year, according to a July 13 announcement. After months of discussion surrounding a feasibility study to determine whether Gaston County Schools should consolidate W.B. Beam Intermediate School, the district announced that it plans to operate the facility […]
Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz New Hanover County leaders will consider investing $2 million in a pilot project from Cape Fear Development (CFD) that aims to take a new approach in meeting the region’s growing demand for workforce housing. On Monday, the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners will weigh contributing $2 million to fund the development of […]
The ink’s barely dry on the State Health Plan’s new preferred-provider system and it’s already drawing fire from Down East because it lacks one in that part of the state. “As usual, rural North Carolina gets the [dirty] end of the deal,” says Steve Biggs, president and CEO of the Martin County Economic Development Corp. […]
North Carolina’s effort to clean up old landfills is so poorly funded that the Department of Environmental Quality hasn’t been able to even investigate 78% of the 688 it knows about, State Auditor Dave Boliek says. At current rates, it’ll take the department about 99 years to inspect, strategize for and remediate them all, Boliek […]
Three years after losing it, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has won back the State Health Plan’s business, and then some. Plan trustees on Friday voted to hire Blue Cross to serve as its third-party claims processor, a job the Durham-based insurer had performed until it fell out of favor with former […]
State Health Plan managers say making UNC Health and Novant two of the plan’s three preferred care providers will have its greatest fallout in the Charlotte area, given that Atrium Health is winding up on the “non-preferred” list. The decision means plan members will face less in co-pays if they work with UNC Health and […]
One of the changes CNBC made this year to its Top States for Business ranking system is the addition within it of metrics for the speed of permitting decisions for construction and other needs. It says it’s relying in part on data from Labrynth, an AI firm that puts out its own Red Tape Index […]
North Carolina has slipped out of the top spot in CNBC’s annual Top States for Business rankings, but only dropped to second behind the new No. 1, Ohio. Released Thursday, the new rankings continue a six-year, post-pandemic run that’s seen North Carolina hold down the No. 1 or No. 2 slot each year. The Tar […]
State Auditor Dave Boliek and his team have found plenty more to criticize Rocky Mount officials about, in a new report on the city’s handling of a utility-billing problem late last year. The fallout included delayed bill payments from a pair of city councilmen, Verb Roberson and T.J. Walker, who between them owed $30,231. The […]
MVP Southgate’s backers have notified federal regulators that they’ve begun construction of their 31-mile gas pipeline, which will run from Virginia into Rockingham County. The July 2 notice to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission came nine days after the agency told them they could go ahead. It also followed a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of […]
Dean Hensley/WLOS News Rep. Chuck Edwards (NC-11) and his wife, Teresa, have sold all of their McDonald’s restaurants. According to a July 13 news release, Edwards said the sale ends a five-decades long chapter of his life, since he started as an employee at McDonald’s when he was 16 years old. He ended up purchasing […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square Voter registration returned above 7.8 million for North Carolina in the latest weekly update from the State Board of Elections. There was no distinct difference in recent trends. The gain of 5,480 total registrations was split 4,583 unaffiliated with any party, 490 was the net gain for Republicans and 365 was […]
