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NC budget funds key Dominique Moody reforms
Lawmakers funded a six-person child welfare review team and training but left reporting, documentation and analytics provisions out.
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New Bern eye surgeon cites three reasons to reverse CON dispute ruling
The New Bern eye surgeon challenging North Carolina’s certificate-of-need healthcare restrictions is asking the state’s second-highest court to overturn trial judges’ December 2025 ruling against him.
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NC budget raises sports-betting tax, adds prediction markets
New NC budget raises sports-betting taxes, redirects revenue to public universities, and creates a new tax on prediction markets.
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Judge rejects NC bar owners’ motion, 2nd case ‘successfully mediated’
A Superior Court judge rejected Tuesday a request from NC bar owners who were seeking to split two pieces of their lawsuit over government-mandated COVID closings in 2020 and 2021.
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Judge to weigh competing requests in COVID bar shutdown lawsuit
A Superior Court judge could decide Tuesday whether North Carolina bar owners suing over COVID-related government shutdowns can pursue depositions from former Gov. Roy Cooper and his top health official.
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Consent order would end lawsuit over NC Medicaid autism services
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and families that use Medicaid-funded autism services have reached a deal that would end a 2025 lawsuit.
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NC lawmakers unveil long-awaited state budget
Lawmakers unveiled a $34B state budget with raises, tax cuts, Helene recovery, Medicaid oversight, and final votes expected this week.
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Bar owners seek depositions from Cooper, Cohen in COVID shutdown suit
North Carolina bar owners who are suing over government-mandated shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic want to hear from former Gov. Roy Cooper and his top health official.
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11 NC hospitals warned by Trump administration on pricing transparency
Eleven North Carolina hospitals allegedly not in compliance with Trump's pricing transparency directives received either a warning or a request to take corrective action.
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Top NC court rejects 2nd look now at New Bern eye surgeon’s CON case
The North Carolina Supreme Court will not bypass a lower court to take a second look at a New Bern eye surgeon’s challenge to the state’s certificate-of-need law.
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House leaders ask DA to investigate Mecklenburg DSS failures
House Oversight leaders are calling for a criminal review of Mecklenburg DSS officials after findings of systemic child welfare failures.
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NC House passes involuntary commitment reform bill
Legislation would expand outpatient commitment, study psychiatric hospital operations, and improve access to behavioral health bed data.
