Brian Murphy & Jack Hagel/WRAL News Leaders of the North Carolina Senate are pushing for a government-backed framework for a $1.7-billion Raleigh stadium — a plan that would support a Major League Baseball expansion bid, a legislative proposal reviewed by WRAL News on Saturday reveals. But House leaders’ opposition to...

Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press In 2018, postpartum eclampsia kept Jessica McIntyre in the hospital for a week after the birth of her son. McIntyre, a school social worker in Beaufort County, had health insurance, but her plan required her to pay 20% of the cost of her stay. In total,...

Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News When Martin General Hospital closed its doors in 2023 after 73 years of service, residents of Martin County in eastern North Carolina were left without a local emergency department. At the time the hope was to get the facility reopened quickly with new management. Three years...

Jill Doss-Raines/The High Point Enterprise If the Lexington City Council approves in August, Davidson County will have a second property poised to become a potential megasite for industrial development. The council has scheduled a public hearing for 6 p.m. Aug. 10 on annexing 848.8 acres along N.C. 47 south of...

Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston said that the board deliberately resisted pressure from Guilford County Schools to approve a larger property tax increase this year, arguing that commissioners had promised taxpayers they wouldn’t raise taxes any more than necessary. Alston made...

Katie Myers/BPR News Duke Energy is preparing for the second hurricane season since Helene, and the utility says new upgrades have readied the grid for future storms. Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic outages in Western North Carolina, with over 1 million and a half customers out of power after the storm...

Ben Humphries/Education NC Big changes are coming to the State Health Plan, which provides health insurance for nearly 750,000 teachers, state employees, retirees, and their dependents. Starting in 2027, State Health Plan members will be incentivized by lower deductibles and out-of-pocket costs to seek out “preferred providers” for their care....

Michael Koh/WCHL Chapelboro Ed Davis, who played for the UNC men’s basketball team from 2008 through 2010 and helped the Tar Heels win the 2009 national title, is among six former NBA players who are being charged with conspiracy, bribery and money laundering as the result of a federal investigation....

Felicia Sonmez/BPR News The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority approved its annual budget Wednesday, outlining how it plans to spend an estimated $34.5 million dollars in tourism tax revenue during the upcoming fiscal year. The budget’s passage comes days after Gov. Josh Stein signed a law that puts new limits...

Shannon Keith/The Sanford Herald The Sanford City Council remain divided on increases in property tax rates and water and sewer rates in next year’s budget. The council on Thursday voted 4-3 to pass an amended budget ordinance raising the property tax rate by 2 cents and the water and sewer...

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...