Local Duke nuclear energy update Senate Bill 266’s rework of North Carolina’s carbon-reduction targets was partly intended to buy time for Duke Energy to develop...
Education WFU president stepping down next summer Wake Forest University President Susan Wente will leave her job on June 30, the end of her fifth year in...
Local Court of Appeals wades into messy disputes Wednesday was also a day for the N.C. Court of Appeals to issue opinions. Separate three-judge panels handed down rulings...
Education Poe Hall at NC State update NC State has sued Monsanto and a Pfizer subsidiary over the PCB contamination of Poe Hall, seeking to shield itself...
Local Duke Energy’s Carolinas Resource Plan Duke Energy’s latest Carolinas Resource Plan posits retaining three of the utility’s coal-fired power plants for two to four years...
Health Care Fitch calls Duke Health’s margins “compressed” There’s a bit more to say about Duke Health and its finances, given the heat State Treasurer Brad Briner’s office...
Local Trouble in Rocky Mount Rocky Mount’s government announced last week that “for over two years, the city has spent millions more each month than it...
Local Congressional panel probes N.C., S.C. murders A fair fraction of the political set is likely to focus its attention on a Monday morning Congressional hearing set...
Education Duke in the crosshairs Duke University and Duke Health are getting battered from all sides these days, politically speaking. My Business North Carolina colleague...
Education Zoning exemption for UNC awaits Stein’s pen Gov. Josh Stein, a Chapel Hill native, ironically may have the last word on whether the town loses its right...
Local Granny flats in Charlotte Officials in Charlotte have rolled out a new financial incentive to convince homeowners not just to add a granny flat...
Local An incentives reset for Apple? A portion of the legislature’s latest mini-budget could give Apple more time to deliver on the promises it made in...
Local Fuel-delivery contract The House government-efficiency committee’s first hearing probed briefly into a new, statewide fuel-delivery contract that will pay out an estimated...
Elections Berger bucks Senate leader Phil Berger has raised 71 times as much money as his GOP primary challenger so far in in...
Local Jones and Cooper House Majority Leader Jones, by the way, opened Wednesday’s hearing with another blast at former Gov. Roy Cooper, who’s now...