The GEO Group, the company that owns the former Rivers Correctional Center in Winton, Hertford County, announced on Wednesday that it entered into a five-year support services contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the activation of a federal immigration processing center at the 1,320 bed facility.
The Chatham County Board of Commissioners voted on Monday to terminate its $400 million economic development agreement between the county and Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer VinFast, dealing another blow to the ill-fated project in Moncure.
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A conference report released Tuesday evening would redirect both state budget earmarks for a gated community to Harnett County.
North Carolina officials met with aerospace and defense manufacturers near London last week as part of an effort to recruit more companies to the state and expand its growing aviation and defense industry.
NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a coalition of attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia, and the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, in a lawsuit filed in Rhode Island on July 23 against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for threatening to withhold more than $1 billion in homeland security and disaster-response grants to states unless they adopt the Trump administration policies on elections and immigration.
ICE could open NC’s first federal detention center later this year at the former Rivers Correctional Center in Winton, Hertford County. That’s according to a New York Times report which cites internal federal documents.
The NC DPS had $97.3 million in financial reporting errors for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2025, according to an audit released on Wednesday NCOSA.
A performance audit of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ (NCDHHS) Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) found a few issues with the way compliance visits were conducted at 4,112 child care centers across the state.
On Tuesday, US Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC, testified at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing about how the need for additional disaster relief funding would benefit western North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene almost two years ago.
A lack of sufficient internal controls over finances, and excessive expenditures on travel expenses are just some of the issues described in a Rapid Response Special Report released by the North Carolina Office of the State Auditor (NCOSA) on the Town of Zebulon.
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