(The Center Square) – Five candidates bidding to be the first Republican since 1882 elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the northeastern part of North Carolina professed allegiance and alliance with the president and had few differences Thursday while discussing their first priorities if elected, rural health care, and the country’s spending... Read more
(The Center Square) – Plans to “dig deeply” into the impact of consolidation in the health care industry as smaller, independent medical practices are purchased by private equity firms and other large corporations is planned this summer in North Carolina, TCS has learned.
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(The Center Square) – The amount of gas-fired power generation in development in the U.S. nearly tripled over the past year to a record-high 252 gigawatts, with a third of the planned additions in Texas, as utilities and technology companies raced to meet soaring demand from data centers servicing the artificial intelligence boom.
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(The Center Square) – The state of North Carolina’s partnership with a private company to lower health care costs for employees has already reduced the price of surgeries and led to some patients not having to have surgery at all.
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(The Center Square) – As North Carolina state employees briefed legislators Thursday on efforts to expand broadband internet access to rural parts of the state, one lawmaker asked whether the private sector might have better solutions.
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(The Center Square) – Vagabond candidacy by Floridian Margot Dupre will end short of a U.S. Senate seat from North Carolina, though more forcefully than her bid in Idaho.
The State Board of Elections on Wednesday said a win... Read more
(The Center Square) – Democrats in Virginia pushing three proposals impacting governance, oversight and disciplinary policy at VMI may just shove the state-supported military college founded in 1839 into North Carolina.
Citing strategic priorities of the state, Columbus County... Read more
(The Center Square) – Ryan Routh, the North Carolina native who lived in Hawaii, has been sentenced to life in prison on conviction of going to Florida attempting to kill Donald Trump on the 2024 presidential campaign trail.
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(The Center Square) – Release five years ago of an estimated 9,000 prisoners – known to include 3,500 as part of settling litigation led by the NAACP and ACLU against then-Gov. Roy Cooper – included DeCarlos Brown Jr., says the leader of North Carolina’s Senate.
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(The Center Square) – American citizen and Chapel Hill, N.C. native, Keith Siegel and his wife Aviva focused their Wednesday meeting with First Lady Melania Trump on hope and a mission to give back following their harrowing ordeals, highlighting an unbreakable bond and hopeful spirit.
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(The Center Square) – Property tax reform options will be examined and recommendations made by a 10-member committee of the Senate in North Carolina.
Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, the president pro tempore, chose Appropriations Committee Cochairmen Brent Jackson, R-Sampson,... Read more
(The Center Square) – North Carolina high school graduates have set a new record for obtaining certifications in the industries where they will work, the Education Department said Wednesday.
The high certification is good news both for the graduates... Read more
(The Center Square) – Independent North Carolina voters crashed approval ratings of Democrats and Republicans in Congress and did little to help nominal drops in support for second-term Republican President Donald Trump in a new survey.
Registered Democrats and... Read more
(The Center Square) – Avoiding a government shutdown and choosing a different route to reforms for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security guided the vote of a Democratic North Carolina congressman targeted in the state’s congressional redistricting.
Rep. Don... Read more
(The Center Square) – When a state has no approved budget, a governor looks to do what he has to do, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein told state leaders Tuesday.
There is a federal program, SUN Bucks, which provides... Read more
(The Center Square) – Favorability over unfavorability is greater for the Republican majorities General Assembly and the Republican majority state Supreme Court in North Carolina than it is for first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein or Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper.
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(The Center Square) – Manufacturing, servicing, engineering, and research and development will be increased in three North Carolina locations in a nationwide $1 billion investment by Siemens Energy.
One-third of the 1,500 jobs being added and an estimated $421... Read more
(The Center Square) – Sexual abuse accusations have grown at the UNC System’s largest institution, all tied to the athletics department and former sports medicine director Robert Murphy Jr.
Plaintiffs include two by name and 29 others known as... Read more
(The Center Square) – Measurable snow in all 100 counties over the weekend was the first time since January 2014, the Climate Office at N.C. State University says.
Four deaths between Friday and Monday are linked to the storm,... Read more
(The Center Square) – Democrat Roy Cooper ended 2025 with more than $12.3 million in cash on hand in his bid to win a U.S. Senate seat from North Carolina.
His chief rival, Republican Michael Whatley, closed at $3.7... Read more
