The North Carolina Newsroom is a journalism collaboration expanding state government news coverage for North Carolina audiences. Reporters Adam Wagner and Mary Helen Moore will report stories that matter in communities served by public radio stations WFAE, WFDD, BPR, WHQR, and WUNC.
The collaboration is funded by a two-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
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New or higher tolls would impact eight ferry routes. Senator Bobby Hanig tried to have them removed from the budget. -
FEMA's decision to stop reimbursing all of the debris removal costs from Hurricane Helene could cost North Carolina as much as $200 million, Stein told Trump in a letter. -
The IRS and state tax authorities would still be notified about the lottery winner's identity. -
Bipartisan legislation House Bill 765 aims to address affordable housing crisis, largely by limiting planning and zoning powers of local governments. -
Utilities in and around Wilmington have spent more than $240 million installing filters since learning of PFAS contamination in the Cape Fear River. -
Steve Gray said his two acres were forcibly annexed into the city of Greensboro in 2008. He's asking state lawmakers for help. -
A 2008 tax bill omits solar farms from paying for 80% of the property tax on the value of their equipment. County governments and House Republicans want to strike that tax exemption. -
UNC and Duke's health systems are partnering on North Carolina's first standalone children's hospital. Republican leaders said it will be exempt from Certificate of Need. -
If the Senate budget is approved as written, the state's total funding allocated to Helene would top $2 billion. -
An Eastern NC hunting club member said it would be "100% impossible" to comply with the proposed law.
