Adam Wagner
NC Newsroom Editor/ReporterAdam Wagner is an editor/reporter with the NC Newsroom, a journalism collaboration expanding state government news coverage for North Carolina audiences. The collaboration is funded by a two-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Adam can be reached at awagner@ncnewsroom.org
Wagner has more than 10 years of North Carolina reporting experience. Most recently, he served as Climate Change and Environmental Reporter at the News & Observer. There, he was part of a team that won several national awards for the investigative series Big Poultry, including an Investigative Reporters & Editors award and the Victor K. McElheny Award. As a reporter for the StarNews in Wilmington, he helped lead the team that broke the GenX/PFAS story. Wagner is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism & Honors program at Ohio University.
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With the shutdown appeared to be headed to a conclusion, Stein visited a Raleigh food bank on Tuesday to present a donation of more than $3 million. -
Parents of 22 children who have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder said cutting reimbursement rates for the therapies discriminates against their children. -
The General Assembly provided $500 million to the program this summer. DHHS says it needs $319 million more. -
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will offer 50% of typical benefits in November using a reserve fund. North Carolina was one of the states that sued to require it to use that money amid federal shutdown. -
The federal program provides food, formula and support to about 262,000 people in North Carolina. -
North Carolina joins other states in lawsuit to protect SNAP benefits, prevent 'major hunger crisis'The Trump Administration has said it will not use reserve funds to continue providing SNAP amid the federal shutdown. More than 1.3 million North Carolinians use the program to buy food. -
The new map shifts eastern North Carolina counties between the state's 1st and 3rd Districts to give Republicans a clear advantage in both. -
The NC General Assembly approved the new Congressional map this week. It shifts the state's 1st Congressional District from a swing district to one where a Republican can more easily win. -
The N.C. House of Representatives voted to approve the new map Wednesday. It redraws the state's 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts to give Republicans a clear advantage in both seats. -
The Senate formally passed the new map Tuesday, and it started to make its way through the state House of Representatives.
