A new online program at Wake Tech is part of a statewide effort to help teachers who don’t have a bachelor’s degree in education earn a North Carolina teaching license. When she was an elementary student in Wake County Schools, Jordyn Johnson would often come home and reteach the lessons...

A bipartisan group of North Carolina lawmakers supports a bill that would reduce the cost of medicines made from blood plasma. Plasma medications treat rare, autoimmune diseases. They’re also expensive — running anywhere from $500 to $3,000. A bill in Congress called the PLASMA Act would require manufacturers to pay...

When people who actually care about free and fair elections called the wave of election law changes in North Carolina voter suppression, conservatives and election deniers clutched their proverbial pearls and cried that they were being unfairly attacked. They said making same day registration more difficult, requiring an ID to...

“We have a crisis on our hands. A global health crisis.” That’s what Fonda Bryant, mental health/suicide prevention advocate and founder/CEO of Wellness Action Recovery, Inc., told Carolina Journal in a recent phone interview about the suicide rate among law enforcement across the country, including here in North Carolina. Since...

North Carolina is teetering on the edge of losing roughly $5.4 million in federal funds for combating the opioid epidemic and supporting substance use disorder treatment. If the state doesn’t slash youth tobacco access, it could forfeit funding. But North Carolina’s tobacco laws have made that difficult. To receive federal...

A federal judge dismissed without prejudice federal wiretapping and North Carolina privacy law claims against health care provider FastMed Urgent Care PC. Plaintiff Jackelyn Rodiguez in a July 2023 complaint claimed FastMed shared with Meta individually identifiable health information including present and future medical conditions, concerns, symptoms, appointments, providers, treatments,...

Every year in September, the ski slopes on Beech Mountain transform into a fantasy-land of munchkins and winged monkeys, resurrecting North Carolina’s mythical Land of Oz theme park. Fans of a certain age will recall the 1970s curiosity, with its trail of 40,000 yellow bricks, hot-air balloon rides and a...

Leaders in Chowan County came together with members of Timbermill Wind and Apex Clean Energy, to sign their name on a wind blade Wednesday. Ken Young, CEO of Apex Clean Energy said at Wednesday’s press conference, “there were many challenges, and I personally like Gene doubted we would ever get...

In a historic move, elected officials, doctors and others have formed a group with the goal of compelling the sale of Mission Health by HCA Healthcare, a for-profit company and the nation’s largest health care entity whose $1.9 billion purchase of the nonprofit Mission led to a serious decline in...

A failed air conditioning system at UNC Health’s remote data center brought down computer operations at its hospitals and clinics in North Carolina. First reported by The News & Observer, the outage shortly follows the massive IT disruptions that were caused by a CrowdStrike software update, which also impacted UNC...

Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign appears to be driving a surge in enthusiasm among North Carolina Democrats. Along with support from the state’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention, 47 members of the North Carolina House Democratic Caucus endorsed Harris on Tuesday. She’s also received endorsements from all seven Democrats in...

Donald Trump has so far watched from the sidelines as Vice President Kamala Harris galvanized and re-energized Democrats by stepping in to replace President Joe Biden as candidate. On Wednesday, Trump gets back in the game. The Republican presidential nominee is due to hold his first campaign rally since Harris...

State House members questioned Board of Elections Chairman Alan Hirsch over the Board’s party-line vote rejecting a request for recognition as a political party from a group called Justice for All. Justice for All wants to put Cornel West on the ballot as a presidential candidate. The election board’s 3-2...

In June 2023, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services began verifying the eligibility of 2.5 million Medicaid participants for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This marked the start of the so-called unwinding of the continuous coverage requirement, a federal provision that provided states...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill must pay $25,000 and its trustees must affirm a commitment to follow the state’s open-meeting laws as part of a settlement that dismissed a lawsuit over the board’s handling of athletics discussions. David McKenzie, a lawyer in Wake County, had filed a...