The North Carolina Office of the State Auditor has released its 2025 statewide single audit, reporting 19 findings and $342,093 in questioned costs in its review of $28 billion in federal grants spent by North Carolina entities during fiscal year 2025. The audit says the state spent $43.9 billion in federal awards overall for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, with Medicaid accounting for more than half of that total.
An employee of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services who was fired for not getting a COVID vaccine is speaking out.
Governor Cooper signed Executive Order 225, extending certain DHHS regulatory waivers to facilitate the provision of health care and vaccination efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hooks, secretary of the state Department of Public Safety, has served in the role since the beginning of Cooper’s first term. He helped oversee North Carolina's response to hurricanes, violence in understaffed prisons, mob teardowns of Confederate statues on public property, last summer’s riots and protests, and the COVID pandemic.
