News
- UNC professor and behavioral scientist Noel Brewer was among the 17 of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) who were removed from their positions this week.
- Durham based Merge Records is partnering with Bloomington, Indiana based Secretly Group in a deal that sees Secretly acquiring a 50% stake in the indie label.
- Since Republican Dave Boliek won last year’s election for state auditor, the position has been getting more powerful. He’s now responsible for appointing and overseeing the State Board of Elections, and lawmakers want to put him in charge of a sweeping government efficiency review.
- Stein signed legislation dealing with North Carolina state retirement investments, law enforcement retirements, and social worker regulations.
- Bradley Simmons, instructor of West African percussion at Duke University for nearly three decades, died at 72 on May 22.
- JetZero Inc. announced plans Thursday to build its first manufacturing plant for a next-generation enger jet in central North Carolina, a project that if successful would create more than 14,500 jobs there in a decade.
- Duke Health says the Cary facility will serve a quickly growing part of Wake County with at least 40 new hospital beds in the coming years.
- At five North Carolina prisons, trained peer observers — incarceratedpeople themselves — provide watch and to those in mental healthcrises at risk of taking their own lives.
- The state House voted 59-48 Wednesday to allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit, but the bill could soon face a likely veto from Gov. Josh Stein.
- UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan Stadium hosted the first-ever friendly match between the national men's soccer teams of Mexico and Turkey.
- The General Assembly is considering intervening to keep the prior Lincoln-Catawba county line.
- Students called on state lawmakers to increase funding for facilities and scholarships at North Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities and to protect their voting access.