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 remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal caused flooding across Central North Carolina, causing rivers like the Eno and Haw to reach record flood levels. -
The so-called "Registration Repair Project" affects about 103,000 voters. -
State forestry officials have said thousands of acres of downed trees after Helene could contribute to heightened risk in the coming years. -
Opponents said the legislation, which was originally intended to regulate squatters, was tweaked in a way that could help puppy mills. -
Language added to House Bill 96 makes clear that county and municipal governments cannot regulate pet shops. Some lawmakers say that's a boost to shops that sell animals from puppy mills. -
N.C. Governor Josh Stein said the General Assembly must take steps to protect Medicaid expansion and provide food assistance. -
The new memo from N.C. State professors says the fuel costs to power new natural gas plants could be a key price driver for Duke Energy customers in the coming decades. -
Called the REINS Act, the legislation says the General Assembly must approve rules that meet certain cost thresholds. -
The relief package appropriates about $700 million to the state's Helene fund and sends $270 million to repair storm-damaged transportation infrastructure. -
Despite transportation funding concerns, NC legislature vote to allow Mecklenburg transit referendumMecklenburg County leaders want to put the transit referendum on the ballot this November. It would add a one percent sales tax to fund transportation projects.
