North Carolina’s system of requiring some advanced-practice nurses to pay physicians for the right to ply their trade is the target of a lawsuit filed by the owner of a Fuquay-Varina menopause-treatment clinic. Jamie Gallagher and her lawyers say she pays $16,500 to a doctor for the “collaborative practice agreement” that under state regulation enables […]
State Auditor Dave Boliek says the Local Government Commission should more closely scrutinize the borrowing requests it fields from the N.C. Housing Finance Agency. Boliek briefly held up but ultimately joined other commissioners in supporting the agency’s latest request, permitting it to issue up to $1.25 billion in revenue bonds to finance its home-ownership programs. […]
Local Government Commission members have given ECU Health permission to borrow up to $700 million to refinance existing debts and add to its facilities. ECU Health intends to use $200 million from the impending bond sales to, among other things, “expand and equip” the fifth and sixth floors of its cancer center’s Eddie and Jo […]
GOP First Congressional District nominee Laurie Buckhout has been suspended from the online prediction market Kalshi for three years, apparently for betting on her own campaign. The New York City market also says its settlement with Buckhout also includes a $2,590 financial penalty. The agreement “established that Buckhout purchased less than $1,000 worth of contracts […]
Over at Business North Carolina, former stone-quarry executive Tom Oxholm laments that the state’s business leaders aren’t more involved in pressing legislators for better funding of the public K-12 schools. His criticism of state policy takes in the state’s teacher-pay scale, newly adjusted in the fiscal 2026-27 budget to have a floor on the state […]
WakeMed is losing two of its key executives even as the debate about its planned merger with Atrium Health continues. Thomas Gough, WakeMed’s COO, is leaving for a similar post with Florida-based Baptist Health. He starts there on Sept. 14. Dr. Seth Brody, previously WakeMed’s chief physician executive, is now the chief medical growth officer […]
A couple of Down East Republicans are touting state House’s interest in passing restrictions on data-center development, even though the bill’s stalled in the Senate and its fate in the remainder of this session is far from clear. Rep. Charlie Miller and John Lowery, who are from Brunswick and Robeson counties respectively, tweeted their support […]
Former North Carolina U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry may think prediction markets like Kalshi aren’t handling sports bets in the traditional sense, but a panel of West Coast judges appointed by President Trump disagrees. Ruling on Friday, Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ryan Nelson and two of his colleagues rejected Kalshi’s argument that federal […]
A big part of downtown Raleigh’s developmental success story is the massive expansion of housing there, which business leaders say is poised to continue. Since 2015, developers have added 6,923 housing units to downtown’s inventory. Another 765 are under construction, and a further 5,922 are in the pipeline of “planned or proposed” projects, the Downtown […]
Fort Bragg is one of the five “initial locations” in line to get a nuclear “microreactor” in the next couple of years to help power its operations, the U.S. Army says. The choice is an outgrowth of what the Army calls the Janus Program, and comes also with the selection of California-based Antares Nuclear to […]
Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer What are the boundaries of free speech? That’s the question Haywood County commissioners were faced with at their meeting last week when almost a dozen citizens showed up to talk about the weekly Hands Off Haywood protests. Since March of 2025, protesters have gathered on the sidewalk in front of the […]
Lisa Sorg/NC Newsline & Inside Climate News The man came out of nowhere, but he seemed to be on their side. Dozens of residents of Clemmons, a small village south of Winston-Salem, were alarmed about a proposed asphalt plant that could be built in their neighborhood, Rolling Green Village. The man, who said his name […]
Alan Wooten/The Center Square One month after federal Justice Department officials said Duke University discriminated based on race in admissions, and two months after $108 million in federal money was frozen for Duke Health, the U.S. Department of Education has followed with a probe of foreign funding tied to America’s national defense against China. The […]
Akilah Davis/WTVD News Durham Housing Authority leaders say former Forest Hill Heights residents will have the right to return once the long-planned redevelopment of the site is complete, and the agency says safeguards are in place to ensure that promise is honored. The project, known as Tribute Rising, is being marketed as a way to […]
Kenneth Lee Jr./WFAE Radio INLIVIAN President and CEO A. Fulton Meachem Junior will retire later this month, ending more than a decade leading Charlotte’s public housing agency. Meachem became CEO in 2012 and oversaw the development of more than 1,600 mixed-income apartments. He also led the organization through its 2019 rebranding from the Charlotte Housing […]
