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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The company operating the Mitchell County quarry says it should be allowed because it's repairing railroad damage from Helene. NC regulators say it needs to obtain a permit. -
North Carolina Republicans were vying to be the first state in the nation to enroll in a Trump-supported tax credit for school choice scholarships. -
North Carolina's so-called Medicaid "rebase" comes up more than $300 million short of what state health officials say they need. -
Rep. Ross held a roundtable weeks after the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal killed six people in central North Carolina. That storm came amid NC's Helene recovery. -
The N.C. Office of the State Auditor released its look into the Division of Motor Vehicles. It found that wait times have increased since 2019, staffing levels of driver license examiners remain low and DMV technology is perilously outdated. -
Officials from the Governor's Recovery Office for Western North Carolina and N.C. Emergency Management were speaking in front of a legislative hurricane recovery committee. -
Rep. Nasif Majeed, a Mecklenburg County Democrat, cast the deciding vote to override Stein's veto. The bill originally started as an effort to help people get pornographic material removed, but the Senate added a number of policies regulating trans people. -
The two-term governor, a Democrat, has long been expected to seek the seat being vacated by Sen. Thom Tillis. -
The former governor's remarks were Cooper's first time speaking publicly since news of his Senate campaign broke and come just days before he's expected to formally announce. -
The only remaining wild red wolves live in a five-county region in northeastern North Carolina. They are threatened by poaching and, increasingly, by vehicle strikes.
