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Budget & Taxes

State pension fund sets request for legislative support

Trustees of the state’s largest public-employee pension plan have confirmed that they’ll ask legislators for a 2026-27 employer contribution equivalent...

Elections

Insurance Dept. sees no fraud in Rockingham Co. dispute

North Carolina’s Department of Insurance closed the books on a complaintalleging that Rockingham County officials illegally asked the county’s insurance...

Health Care

State Health Plan rolls out first “preferred providers”

State Health Plan trustees have approved “preferred provider” contracts with the clinic networks of UNC Health and two other groups,...

Local

Tillis, Budd and Noem

The hold-ups of federal Hurricane Helene recovery subsidies are figuring in U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis’ public condemnations of U.S. Homeland...

Education

Info about colleges’ NIL program hard to come by

UNC System schools are mostly sticking to the position that the details of the name, image and likeness programs they...

Education

WSSU only UNC school holding out against tuition increase

Only one of the UNC System’s 16 universities — Winston-Salem State — wants to continue holding the line on in-state...

Local

Federal gag order prompts House Oversight delay

State House leaders have postponed a Thursday oversight hearing they’d scheduled to discuss the security situation on Charlotte’s transit system...

Economic Development

Lumbee land buy could accommodate casino

The Lumbee tribe has bought land in Robeson County that could someday host eastern North Carolina’s first casino. State Rep. John...

Economic Development

Solar farms using but 40,284 acres in N.C.

North Carolina’s utility-scale solar farms are using only 0.31% of the state’s farmland, the N.C. Sustainable Energy Association says. All...

Budget & Taxes

Trustees want $25M in admin cuts at UNC Chapel Hill

Trustees at UNC Chapel Hill have given Chancellor Lee Roberts and his team orders to find $25 million in administrative...

Elections

Immigration battle changing political calculus, some Dems say

Federal immigration crackdowns are politicizing and energizing Americans in ways that haven’t happened in decades, a group of Black politicians...

Economic Development

N.C. Electric Co-ops sets CEO transition

N.C. Electric Cooperatives has hired a new CEO who will take the helm early in April. Amadou Fall has been...

Local

Boliek defends lapsed-salary report: “We have added a layer of true transparency”

State Auditor Dave Boliek defends the validity of his office’s lapsed-salary report even though it counted unfunded, placeholder job slots...

Education

Roberts: No decision yet on Smith Center future

UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee Roberts says he and his team “haven’t made any decisions” about the future of the...

Local

Egleston, Bokhari join lobbying group

Florida-based lobbying firm The Southern Group has hired two former Charlotte city councilmen to start a Charlotte office. Tariq Bokhari...

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