Top 10 4. Many are seeing red after a premium hike in the State Health Plan. But being in the red is what led to it. Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The State Health Plan is deeply in debt. To get out of the red, the...
Top 10 5. Despite changes, State Employees Association still concerned about Auditor’s Office legislation Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio A bill giving State Auditor Dave Boliek more power to fire or discipline some employees in his...
Top 10 6. Longtime North Carolina House member Sarah Stevens plans to run for state Supreme Court The Associated Press A veteran North Carolina Republican legislator announced Wednesday that she will run next year for the state...
Top 10 7. $24.9 million from the Leon Levine Foundation expands and sustains UNC Charlotte’s transformative Levine Scholars Program Inside UNC Charlotte With a new gift of $24.9 million, The Leon Levine Foundation is expanding its enduring support for...
Top 10 8. Lawmakers advance bills on school performance grades, safety, math reform, and more Chantal Brown/Education NC During a hefty House K-12 Education Committee meeting on Tuesday, lawmakers discussed bills ranging from math reform...
Top 10 9. Lottery funding not what it’s cracked up to be Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer When Haywood County Schools Superintendent Trevor Putnam got a call asking the school system to be...
Top 10 10. NAACP joins fight for Chemours to disclose documents Coastal Review Online An area branch of the NAACP has joined the fight to keep Chemours and its predecessor company...
Local House Agriculture backs repeal of solar tax break Rep. Jimmy Dixon’s drive to repeal a property tax break for solar-power farms cleared its first committee hurdle on Wednesday,...
Top 10 1. NC emerges as southern hub for abortion access amid new regional restrictions Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News North Carolina has emerged as a vital access point for abortion care in the South in...
Top 10 2. NC House votes to ban DEI policies, programs in state government Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio The state House voted 68-45 along party lines Wednesday to ban diversity, equity and inclusion in state...
Top 10 3. North Carolina court says stripping governor of election board appointments can go ahead for now Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press A North Carolina appeals court ruled Wednesday that a law stripping the governor’s authority to...
Top 10 4. Resolution reached in cases related to deadly crash involving UNC students, football players Sarah Krueger/WRAL News The majority of the cases related to the January 2024 crash that killed University of North Carolina...
Top 10 5. Most people flagged by ICE in NC are not taken into custody, study shows Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Those who are taken into ICE custody typically arrive at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. Data...
Top 10 6. Former president of St. Augustine’s University sues school for 2nd time WTVD News The former president of Saint Augustine’s University, Dr. Christine McPhail, is once again suing the school and two...
Top 10 7. A proliferation of proposed NC election bills reveal a pattern: partisan ones lead the pack Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press There’s never an off year for elections. At least not in the state legislature. This session,...
