Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Total revenues have grown $6.3 billion in North Carolina’s Health Department, fueled by $6 billion from federal revenues in Medicaid, says an audit of fiscal year 2025 released Friday. North Carolina’s total enrollment in Medicaid is about 3.1 million, says the analysis from first-term Republican state...

Dan Kane & Esther Frances/The Raleigh News & Observer Last year, North Carolina House Majority Leader Brenden Jones stood on the floor of the chamber and urged his colleagues to amend a bill intended to make building construction more efficient. He asked them to support a public-private partnership option to...

Joseph Ochoa/WRAL News One of Wake County’s largest employers said Thursday it cut hundreds of jobs across the company. Cary-based software company SAS eliminated 300 positions throughout the company last week, a company spokesperson said.  The company said the job cuts were “targeted changes” and that employees who were affected...

Jay Price/WUNC News The House Armed Services Committee has voted to yet again change the names of Fort Bragg and eight other Army bases originally named for Confederate generals. It did so by adding an amendment the annual defense funding bill, which still needs the approval of the full House...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily A local transportation authority is requesting to join the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s advanced air mobility program, which will explore bringing new aircraft technologies to North Carolina cities. The Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization voted unanimously to submit an application to NCDOT at its...

Walker Livingston/Carolina Public Press HCA-owned Mission Hospital in Asheville has received four “immediate jeopardy” warnings from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the past five years. This warning, the most serious from CMS, means that a medical service provider has caused, or is likely to cause, harm...

Ana Risano/The Southern Pines Pilot Southern Pines Fire Station Two is across the road from the Moore County Airport, making it a key player in any airport-related emergencies and future planning as commercial air service is sought. On Tuesday, Fire Chief and Assistant Town Manager Mike Cameron gave the Town...

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News As unaffiliated voters have overtaken Republicans and Democrats as the largest voting group in the state, candidates running outside of the two major party apparatuses still struggle in elections, but several Western North Carolina candidates hope to change that narrative. There are four unaffiliated contenders in...

Christine Zhu/NC Newsline A new study is refuting claims by critics that the solar industry is taking over productive farmland and interfering with agricultural production. “You travel across the state of North Carolina, and it’s occupying the best farmland in the state,” said N.C. House Agriculture Chairman Jimmy Dixon (R-Duplin)...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Many Latino residents in Mecklenburg County still face significant barriers to accessing health care. That’s what community members heard Friday at the Mecklenburg County Health Department’s annual Meck Design conference, where officials presented the department’s 2025 Community Needs Assessment, which in part focused on Latino health outcomes....

Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Nearly four months after receiving objections from state officials over the proposed deepening of the Cape Fear River shipping channel, the Army Corps of Engineers is continuing to revise its environmental and feasibility review of the proposed deepening of Wilmington’s harbor. David Connolly, spokesperson with the...

Becky Johnson & Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer  A troubling trend is playing out at fire departments across the region: new recruits are few and far between, and can’t keep pace with retirements and resignations. “Three years ago, we would have had 20 applications within a week and a half,” said...

Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press An artificial intelligence and social media safety bill more than a year in the making is progressing toward passage after receiving unanimous, bipartisan support in the latest vote on it by the North Carolina Senate. House Bill 301 would overhaul current standards of AI in schools,...

Carrie Johnson/NPR The Supreme Court agreed to shield Monsanto from liability over its popular weed killer Roundup, dealing a victory to the company’s new owner as it struggles to resolve thousands of costly lawsuits from people who claim the key ingredient caused their cancers. The central issue in the case,...

Joe Gould/NOTUS Republican Sen. Thom Tillis lambasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over reports that the Pentagon chief is forcing the retirement of Gen. Christopher “C.D.” Donahue, calling the move an example of the Cabinet member’s “paranoia” and “inexperience.” Tillis told NOTUS that pushing out one of the Army’s most celebrated...