Health Care Atrium/ Wake Med merger update If history is any guide, the impending merger of WakeMed with Charlotte-based Atrium Health “will not benefit the public,” State...
Health Care Blue Cross NC posts $497.3M loss for 2025 Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina posted a $497.3 million loss in calendar 2025, a report to the N.C....
Elections Cohn’s hat in the ring for Everitt Senate seat State Rep. Bryan Cohn, D-Granville, says he’s signaled to the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate that he’s willing...
Local Social media clampdown — backed by Meta? Sponsors of a pending bill that would restrict children’s access to social-media sites are touting the fact one of the...
Budget & Taxes Senate advances moratorium on property tax-value changes Senate leaders have begun pushing through committee a bill that would freeze property value assessments for a year in a...
Economic Development Ski industry seeks liability limits North Carolina’s ski industry wants legislators to revamp the state laws that regulate it, to among other things cap jury...
Economic Development Legislators postpone intervention in Kerr Lake water-rights battle House and Senate negotiators have dropped the idea of giving Franklin County a clear lane to acquire land in neighboring...
Economic Development Democrats offer data-center bills House Democrats and a Democratic senator have rolled out separate bills that begin to spell out a different approach to...
Elections Majeed goes unaffiliated Another Mecklenburg County legislator who lost in March’s Democratic Party primaries has turned in his membership card. District 99 Rep....
Economic Development Poll: Many oppose casinos for their county In case anyone needed a reminder after Senate leader Phil Berger’s GOP primary loss, a new poll suggests many North...
Economic Development Granville Co. opposes Franklin in Kerr Lake fight Granville County isn’t one of Senate Bill 214’s direct targets, but it’s standing with the communities that are in the...
Budget & Taxes Batch backtracks on Medicaid rebase Senate Democratic Leader Sydney Batch, D-Wake, has walked back her caucus’s support of the Medicaid rebase bill that it has...
Economic Development Franklin County: Give us the water Franklin County officials say that while they remain willing to negotiate for access to Kerr Lake’s water, they want condemnation...
Economic Development Data-center developer sues Chatham County A company led by UNC Board of Governors member Kirk Bradley has sued Chatham County, seeking to overturn the county’s...
Events GOP puts Cooper on blast over American Efficient scandal State Republican leaders have begun trying to make the federal government’s move to fine a Durham company $722 million over...
