State Health Plan officials have added a dozen Atrium Health hospitals and clinics to the plan’s middle-cost tier, but Atrium’s big hospitals in Charlotte and Winston-Salem aren’t among them. The decision follows weeks of talks between the two sides and means that teachers and other state employees in the Charlotte area and the Triad could […]
A proposed rewrite of the UNC System’s construction-project policy would retain for the Board of Governors the ability to veto new buildings, even if legislators signal a willingness to fund them. On the docket for this week’s BOG meetings, the revision system President Peter Hans and his aides propose says that should legislators allocate money […]
Here at Business North Carolina, we remain bemused by some of the numbers in the analysis of school enrollments that consultant Brian Eschbacher gave the Charter Schools Review Board on Sept. 8. One that sticks out is that close to a quarter of the students that attend North Carolina’s public K-12 schools, traditional and charter, […]
Not a single one of the UNC System’s schools is able to pay for intercollegiate athletics with just the revenue its teams bring in — and they’re all subsidizing their programs in some way from the academic side of the house. With sports-related expenses likely to rise, the situation calls for a top-down policy framework […]
James Farrell/WFAE Radio It seemed like an innocuous moment, the kind of bureaucratic wrangling that happens all the time in the Government Center. At a March 2025 school board meeting, then-board member Melissa Easley questioned a proposed contract expansion that would give more money to an educational consulting firm called “SYDKIMYL.” She said she’d never […]
Jack Hagel/WRAL News Lee County officials are backing a multimillion-dollar incentives package to maintain the employment of almost 2,000 employees in the county — the effort to spur one of the biggest-ever economic investments in the city of Sanford. County commissioners on Monday authorized incentives worth up to $46 million in tax rebates for an […]
Molly Steur/Education NC The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the problem of chronic absenteeism for many North Carolina schools. The Education Policy Initiative at Carolina (EPIC) released a March report showing that while chronic absence rates have decreased since they peaked during the 2021-2022 school year, chronic absenteeism is still high, and the rate of improvement is […]
Will Atwater/NC Health News Cedar Creek resident Vickie Mullins and her family have dealt with PFAS-contaminated water for years, and she doubts that a new $590 million agreement between the state, affected governments and the chemical companies will make any real difference. That agreement, announced on Sept. 10 by N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson, involved […]
Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press A potential Tennessee Valley Authority power transmission line running from the Hiwassee River in Tennessee through North Carolina’s far southwest may impact archaeological sites through the heart of the ancestral Cherokee homeland. The 27-mile single-circuit transmission line will cut a 100-foot-wide right-of-way from the Appalachia Hydro Plant in Reliance, Tennessee, to […]
Emily Sawaked/Port City Daily The Leland Town Council will be taking up a resolution and voting on a letter to the area’s congressional representatives about the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement at Thursday’s meeting. Both documents will push for an updated assessment of the river’s navigational needs, which elected leaders hope will prove a smaller […]
Brad Rich/Coastal Review Online Dr. Ford “Bud” Cross said he was “elated” to learn that the nation’s second-oldest federal marine science laboratory is getting a new home to replace its old one on Pivers Island in Beaufort. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Aug. 27 that it plans to use $64 million from […]
Alex Perri/Smoky Mountain News Six candidates are running for three positions on the Macon County Board of Commissioners. The Smoky Mountain News met with these candidates to discuss their platforms, backgrounds, and where they stand on some of the important issues facing their would-be constituents. All five spots on the board are held by Republicans, […]
Kayla Bradshaw/The Daily Tar Heel Chancellor Lee Roberts released a response Monday to U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee’s (D-N.C. 4th) letter following a racially motivated attack at Greenlaw Hall on Aug. 31. On Aug. 31, several Black student organizations held a “Love Island” watch party in Greenlaw Hall. During the watch party, Keegan Carlisle Wilson entered […]
The Sanford Herald Central Carolina Community College and Auction Academy of North Carolina have received approval to offer a training program for aspiring auctioneers. The N.C. Auctioneer Licensing Board approved the joint program as an auction school authorized to provide the state’s required prelicensing curriculum. The 96-hour, 12-week course will prepare students for North Carolina’s […]
Bradley George/WUNC News Two longtime staples of owning a car in North Carolina will soon go away Starting Oct. 1, the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles will no longer issue paper registration cards and license plate stickers. For decades, drivers were required to keep a registration card they could show when pulled over by […]
