Jonathan Lowe/WSOC News The new chairman of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education pleaded guilty to one count, which was count 39, for conspiracy to commit mail, bank, and wire fraud in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme, a Channel 9 investigation found. The discovery comes as the school board faces scrutiny over district contracts and […]
Randall Kerr & Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News North Carolina has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars trying to modernize the computer system that helps run the state’s Medicaid program — an overhaul intended to improve care, pay healthcare providers faster and give the state better tools to detect waste and fraud. The state auditor is […]
Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a construction permit Tuesday for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor in Tennessee – the first permit issued in the U.S. for the construction of the technology developed by GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH). The federal agency issued the permit to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) […]
David N. Bass/The Carolina Journal School finance officers told a state commission on Sept. 28 that they routinely assign employees to whichever budget the state will pay for, and that even then they send unspent teacher money back to Raleigh. The House’s top K-12 lawmaker, one of the legislators who serve on the commission in […]
Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press A drop in crime points to efforts made to improve safety and security on Charlotte’s light rail, but a new state audit shows the system still has much work to be done. The Charlotte Area Transit System, notably the light rail, has come under increasing scrutiny following the murder of Iryna […]
Jill Doss-Raines/The High Point Enterprise A month after a tied vote on the issue, the Davidson County Board of Commissioners moved Monday night toward enacting a temporary pause on data centers. The commissioners approved setting a public hearing for Oct. 26 on a four-month moratorium. The 4-2 vote, with newly appointed Commissioner Steve Shook participating […]
Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer Waynesville’s road to recovery since Helene has been riddled with potholes of bureaucracy. A handful of claims have been trapped in a maze of red tape — delayed, lost, denied, appealed, denied again. “They would lose our paperwork, and one person would tell us one thing and another would tell us […]
Molly Steur/EducationNC One of the goals of the North Carolina Division of Social Services (DSS) is to prevent children from coming into foster care, according to their 2020-24 Final Annual Services and Progress Report, through several targeted statewide efforts. DSS research shows there is an enormous need for foster care in the state, but there […]
Amy Snively/The Daily Tar Heel Last week, North Carolina’s bright blue helmets descended into Death Valley to take on the Clemson Tigers. Every time the ball was snapped, the offensive line clashed with the pass rush. One set of 300-pound bodies colliding with another. Wide receivers didn’t get hit quite as much, but when the […]
Liz Schlemmer/WUNC News The hiring of a transgender teacher at a Wake County elementary school has drawn national attention and heated comments at school board meetings. Some parents want to take their children out of the teacher’s class and say they weren’t given that option. They are threatening to sue the school district if their […]
Thomas Beaumont, Bill Barrow & Steven Sloan/The Associated Press Republicans once saw North Carolina and Georgia as promising pieces of their strategy to keep control of the Senate. But hopes of winning the two states have been fading, and the GOP is increasingly focused on playing defense elsewhere with five weeks until the midterm elections. […]
Aaron Sánchez-Guerra/WUNC News The Census Bureau is proposing rules with major changes to how the U.S. population will be counted in the 2030 Census, raising alarms among state demographers and nonprofit leaders in North Carolina. The proposed rules from the Trump administration includes how and whether race and sexuality are tracked, and also the unprecedented […]
Jonathan Lowe/WSOC News The new chairman of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education pleaded guilty in 2008 to 39 counts tied to a $20 million federal mortgage fraud scheme, a Channel 9 investigation found. The discovery comes as the school board faces scrutiny over district contracts and prepares to launch its search for a replacement for […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it had canceled health insurance for 760,000 people covered under Affordable Care Act marketplace plans, based on findings from an anti-fraud task force. Nobody seems to know how many North Carolina residents were affected by the purge. The federal agency has […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square Regulation of college sports, potentially corralling a volatile period of amateur athletes zooming forward with multi-million dollar deals and major conferences expanding their footprints as valued TV properties, includes the support of both North Carolinians in the U.S. Senate. Protect College Sports Act of 2026, known also as Senate Bill 4663, […]
