Shea Carver/Port City Daily Two pieces of legislation in the North Carolina General Assembly are tackling which board should have final authoritative power on developments coming to Brunswick County. Earlier in the week, Sen. Bill Rabon filed Senate Bill 1079 and Rep. Charlie Miller put forth House Bill 1222. Language...

Sergio Osnaya-Prieto/Education NC Approximately 93% of North Carolina teachers believe their school is a good place to work and learn, according to preliminary data from the 2026 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey. Dr. Shaun Kellogg, senior director of the Department of Public Instruction’s (DPI) Office of Research & Promising...

Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Will there be enough dedicated money to fully fund the “Better Bus” pledge made during last year’s campaign for the transit tax referendum? It looks doubtful. The Charlotte Area Transit System pledged a 50% increase in bus service. It also promised 18 new “microtransit” zones where people...

Taylor Knopf/NC Health News When a child is struggling with a behavioral health crisis, family members often call 911 or take the child to a hospital emergency room for help. But medical providers say that a busy, sometimes chaotic emergency department is not the best place to tackle behavioral health...

Alan Condon/Becker’s Payer Issues CarolinaEast Medical Center, a 350-bed hospital in New Bern, N.C., will drop Blue Cross Blue Shield and UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans, effective July 1, citing burdensome payment policies, claim denials and reimbursement delays. The hospital issued termination notices to both insurers, but negotiations with UnitedHealthcare remain...

Lauren Rhodes/WUNC News Michael Wilkerson uses a flip phone. That may not immediately strike anyone as strange until they find out that Wilkerson is a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill. He got his first phone in middle school, and it wasn’t until his first year in college that he realized: “I...

Sarah White/The Waynesville Mountaineer A full team from the Army Corps of Engineers visited Waynesville this week to gain local insight for a three-year, federally funded $5 million flood risk study. After weeks of behind-the-scenes discussions and data gathering with leaders from the county and towns, the Army Corps turned...

Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning When they voted no on a $100 million expansion of the Henderson County Courthouse in March, county commissioners Sheila Franklin and Jay Egolf expressed concern that the project — and its $10 million a year debt service — would lead to a property tax increase or cause...

Matt Lamb/The Southern Pines Pilot Senior members of the Moore County Schools Central Office recently outlined the district’s book selection and discard process for the Board of Education. The brief gave board members some perspective on the processes and procedures required to remain consistent with state law and the board’s...

Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council on Thursday passed an indefinite moratorium on data centers, following several other counties and municipalities throughout North Carolina that have made similar moves. The alarm was spurred by other data centers in the state, as well as...

Brian Gordon/The Raleigh News & Observer Pieces are shifting and new questions are arising around a major jobs project in Eastern North Carolina. In April 2024, the state awarded Vietnam-based Boviet Solar an incentive to build a 908-worker manufacturing campus in the city of Greenville. Boviet opened a solar panel...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press As North Carolina’s primary electric public utility, the shadow of Duke Energy looms large over the state and in the halls of government. Many lawmakers, both Democratic and Republican, have a relationship with the energy behemoth. Duke Energy spends a lot of money each election cycle...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Construction firms T.A. Loving of Goldsboro and Metcon of Pembroke will jointly renovate the Crown Arena event space and Crown Theatre performance auditorium, the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners decided on Monday. The decision to hire the companies to manage and build the renovations—to serve as what’s known...

Zach Tucker/Spectrum News Anne Robinson started Scottish Gourmet USA in 2005 in New Jersey. She was inspired to start the company after taking trips to Scotland with her husband. They moved the business to Greensboro in 2017, due to the large concentration of Scottish Americans across North Carolina. “There’s a...

Inside UNC Charlotte The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is launching the North Carolina Economic Impact Center, a new initiative designed to provide timely, data-driven analysis on the issues shaping the state and region’s economy, workforce and communities. Housed within the Belk College of Business, the center will serve...