Economic Development Auditors and deficits State Auditor Dave Boliek’s aides dispute the idea that the office ran a deficit in fiscal 2024-25, which saw Boliek...
Economic Development Power co-op seeks relief from biogas demands North Carolina’s largest electric co-op wants legislators to change a law that forces utilities to buy renewable-energy credits tied to...
Budget & Taxes Cary spending money “carelessly,” auditor says State Auditor Dave Boliek’s team found tens of thousands of dollars in dubious spending by Cary’s government, including $65,653 spent...
Health Care Blue Cross taps partners for state PBM deal UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx and Puerto Rico-based Abarca Health are the key players in the nine-company consortium Blue Cross put together...
Economic Development Smith joins NCPorts board As any of his social-media followers knows, Harry Smith likes his boat. He’s now in a position to have over...
Health Care Court of Appeals overturns medical non-competes A divided, all-Republican state Court of Appeals panel has voided one-year non-compete clauses it says could have kept two nurse practitioners...
Local A change atop North Carolina’s Business Court North Carolina’s specialized Business Court is getting its second new chief judge in as many years. Incumbent Business Court Judge...
Health Care State Health Plan picks Duke Health for Triangle care slot State Health Plan managers have picked Duke Health to serve as the plan’s middle-tier, “access” provider in the Triangle. The...
Budget & Taxes Boliek reports a deficit — his own State Auditor Dave Boliek is one of North Carolina’s top watchdogs of local-government finances, but some of his targets might...
Health Care WakeMed: Future borrowing capacity too low WakeMed has told Wake County commissioners it can likely borrow only another $300 million to $400 million in the short...
Uncategorized Briner defends treatment of ECU Health The ink’s barely dry on the State Health Plan’s new preferred-provider system and it’s already drawing fire from Down East...
Economic Development Auditor: Landfill clean-up would take a century at current funding level North Carolina’s effort to clean up old landfills is so poorly funded that the Department of Environmental Quality hasn’t been...
Health Care Blue Cross regains State Health Plan contract Three years after losing it, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has won back the State Health Plan’s...
Health Care UNC Health, Novant make state’s “preferred provider” list State Health Plan managers say making UNC Health and Novant two of the plan’s three preferred care providers will have...
Economic Development Feeling the need, the need for speed … One of the changes CNBC made this year to its Top States for Business ranking system is the addition within...
