Wolf and Flow X-Ray to invest $4.5 million in Rocky Mount Wolf and Flow X-Ray, a medical imaging manufacturer, will create 68 new jobs in Edgecombe County, Governor Roy Cooper announced today. The company will invest more than $4.5 million to relocate their headquarters and manufacturing ope
North Carolina students have until Nov. 30 to register for mobile app development contest Governor Roy Cooper is encouraging high school students across North Carolina to sign up for the Ready, Set, App! Competition by November 30. Teams of three to five students each will work together thr
Raleigh Nov 12, 2020 Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that the state is providing COVID-19 tests to colleges and universities across North Carolina to help bolster schools’ student testing efforts in advance of Thanksgiving and holiday break. NCDHHS is sending a total of 74,470
New figures show the nonfatal workplace injury and illness rate for the Tar Heel state’s private industry remains at a historic low for 2019 with a rate of 2.3 cases per 100 full-time workers, well below the national rate of 2.8. These data are estimates from the Survey of Occupational Inju
The N.C. Coastal Resources Commission (CRC) will meet November 18 by video conference. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Prior to the commission meeting, the Coastal Resources Advisory Council will meet at 1 p.m. Nov. 17 also by video conference. The public may join both meetings b
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced it has upgraded the mobile-friendly ePASS website to include a Spanish language option. The enhancement to the state’s online application portal for Medicaid and Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) provides
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), members of the Senate Armed Services and Veterans’ Affairs Committees, introduced the Brian Tally VA Employment Transparency Act , bipartisan legislation requiring the U.S. Department of Veterans
by Julie Havlak, Carolina Journal News Service RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper moved North Carolina backward in economic reopening in another virtual news conference that shut out some media outlets. Cooper tightened restrictions on indoor mass gatherings, dropping the maximum allowed gather
by Kari Travis The waiting truly is the hardest part. As election results trickle in, North Carolinians are watching, trying to make sense of which ballots we’re counting, which races are safe to predict, and which races may flip. Prolonged ballot counting doesn’t neces
MOREHEAD CITY – A recreational fishing group has dropped a lawsuit that claimed without evidence that the state fisheries agency is violating the federal Clean Water Act in its management of shrimp trawling in North Carolina. The North Carolina Coastal Fisheries Reform Group on Friday volunt
by John Hood North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has just been reelected. It’s an outcome his two immediate predecessors, Democrat Bev Perdue and Republican Pat McCrory, were unable to accomplish. A sweet as that victory must taste to the governor and his team, his ability to conver
by John Trump, Carolina Journal News Service RALEIGH — North Carolina Republicans can take a breath, even if their signature red is mixed with myriad shades of blue. They keep control of the N.C. Council of State, 6-4, albeit with narrow margins in all the races. The results remain uno
