Budget & Taxes Rocky Mount, audited again State Auditor Dave Boliek and his team have found plenty more to criticize Rocky Mount officials about, in a new...
Economic Development Work starts on gas line reaching into Rockingham County MVP Southgate’s backers have notified federal regulators that they’ve begun construction of their 31-mile gas pipeline, which will run from...
Health Care Health researchers criticize WakeMed/Atrium deal Brown University analysts have joined State Treasurer Brad Briner and the rest of the chorus that contends the proposed WakeMed/Atrium...
Budget & Taxes A win off the field for the Tar Heels and Wolfpack UNC Chapel Hill and NC State are the big winners from the budget’s reshuffle of the split of the proceeds...
Economic Development Stein signs reg-reform bill, touts benefits for housing Gov. Josh Stein has signed a bill he says will give North Carolina “another tool in the toolbox to build...
Budget & Taxes Budget upholds JetZero incentives payout plan The fiscal 2026-27 budget continues the state’s previously announced strategy for supplying up to $450 million in direct appropriations to...
Budget & Taxes Let the hunt begin: pork and the state budget Now that the state’s fiscal 2026-27 is out of the legislature and on Gov. Josh Stein’s desk, the search for...
Budget & Taxes Berger explains delay of tax-loophole bill Senate Republicans haven’t taken up a House bill that would close a property tax loophole because they want to address...
Budget & Taxes Democrats question budget-bill prediction-markets tax Democrats are voicing increasing criticism of a budget-bill provision that establishes a 6% tax on the net trading-fee revenue prediction...
Budget & Taxes Ferry tolls trigger GOP dissent in Senate Republican Sens. Bobby Hanig and Norman Sanderson say they voted against the budget bill because it requires the N.C. Department...
Elections Page sues a Berger Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page has sued one of Senate leader Phil Berger’s sons, alleging that he and the county...
Economic Development RTP rolls out its 3.0 development standards Tenants and landowners in Research Triangle Park have approved a set of new development standards that line up with park...
Economic Development Duke gives up its Carolina Long Bay lease Federal officials announced they’ve made a deal with Duke Energy to give it “partial reimbursement” for its $129.2 million offshore-wind...
Economic Development Senate proposes time limits for local zoning reviews Senators have passed and sent to the House a regulatory reform package that among other things would force cities and...
Elections Cohn back in race; Kiger replaces Stevens Rep. Bryan Cohn, D-Granville, is back on the campaign trail after party leaders in Granville and Vance counties picked him...