Health Care Group urges Wake commish to put strings on WakeMed/Atrium deal A Washington-based advocacy group is urging Wake County Commissioners to asked more questions and attach some strings to the proposed...
Economic Development Church fight in the Senate A revamp of the state’s laws for nonprofit corporations unexpected turned into a quarrel on the Senate floor about religious...
Economic Development Berger: I-77 clawback still undecided Senators passed and sent back to the House an omnibus transportation bill, without adding to it any language that would...
Economic Development Lumbee vote adds to string of casino losses Lumbee members’ lopsided rejection of a set of amendments to the tribal constitution “means the tribe does not have a...
Health Care Senators worry about AI-driven hospital billing Senators have rewritten a House bill to ban insurance companies from using AI as “the sole basis” for denying the...
Economic Development Senate passes adversary land-buys bill The Senate has passed and sent to the House a bill that would ban governments like China’s or their state-owned...
Economic Development Duke pares requested power-rate increase Duke Energy has lowered its rate-increase request as the N.C. Utilities Commission continued to weigh how much it should allow...
Economic Development Study looks at gang ties in Durham homicides New statistical analysis confirms that homicide in Durham is predominately a matter of criminals shooting other criminals. Analysts advising a...
Elections SEIU role in Charlotte council race draws criticism An anti-union Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group is asking federal officials to study whether the Service Employees International Union violated laws...
Economic Development Van der Vaart questions legality of exclusion from Duke-plans vote N.C. Utilities Commission member Donald van der Vaart says his exclusion from its decision-making on Duke Energy’s Carolinas Resource Plan...
Elections AI video targets Barnes-Gailliard race An AI-generated video that’s making the rounds on social media depicts a state Senate candidate and prominent Rocky Mount pastor,...
Economic Development Boliek criticizes Mid-Currituck Bridge planning By this point, legislators take it as gospel that the N.C. Department of Transportation has sunk about $60 million or...
Budget & Taxes Stein OKs revaluation moratorium Gov. Josh Stein has signed into law a one-year moratorium on the use of the new-for-2026 valuation updates Guilford County...
Health Care UNC Health requests target Wilmington, Asheville UNC Health officials say they’ve applied to state Department of Health and Human Services for certificates of need that would...
Economic Development Land-buy restrictions for foreigners advance in NCGA Supporters of restricting “adversarial foreign government” land purchases in North Carolina have coalesced around one bill that’s now one stop...