All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 13 2023 // More than a dozen fire departments responded to a massive fire early Saturday at an industrial site in Wayne County, North Carolina.County officials say the blaze, with flames as high as a three-story building at one time,...
Feb 10 2023 // A federal appeals court sided again with North Carolina’s attorney general on Wednesday, saying a 1931 libel law is most likely unconstitutional. Josh Stein has sought to block a fellow Democrat from using the law to...
Feb 10 2023 // A bill increasing punishments for violent protests following the 2020 demonstrations over George Floyd’s murder passed the North Carolina House on Wednesday despite harsh criticism from social justice advocates. Some...
Feb 3 2023 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau is asking for a 28% increase in auto insurance rates for the state, an increase that will likely be slashed significantly by the state Department of Insurance.The average statewide increase...
Jan 27 2023 // Alera Group, an independent insurance and wealth management firm, has acquired the John Hackney Agency in North Carolina. Hackney, with offices in Wilson, in the eastern part of the state, was founded in 1895 by the...
Jan 24 2023 // When gunshots at two electrical substations cut power to thousands of central North Carolina homes for several days in early December, Republican state Rep. Ben Moss watched his vibrant district full of family farms, small...
Jan 4 2023 // Three construction workers were killed and two others were hurt on Monday when scaffolding collapsed in an industrial accident at a job site in Charlotte, North Carolina, authorities said. The scaffolding collapsed just...
Dec 19 2022 // The question of whether a state guaranty fund, which assumed outstanding claims for insolvent insurers, is considered a primary payer and owes money to Medicare, will have to wait for another day to be answered – for a...
Dec 16 2022 // North Carolina lawmakers rebuked the state’s disaster recovery director — with one calling for her removal — for the agency’s slow progress amid years-long delays that have left some low-income...
Dec 14 2022 // Three children under the age of 5 are dead and their mother was taken to a hospital after a house fire in North Carolina on Monday morning, authorities said.Greensboro Deputy Fire Chief Dwayne Church says firefighters...
Dec 7 2022 // The longest serving state insurance commissioner in North Carolina history is being memorialized within his former department. His longtime election foe led the ceremony.The department’s first-floor hearing room in...
Dec 7 2022 // The attacks that left two electrical substations in North Carolina riddled with gunfire and knocked out power to 45,000 homes and businesses underscores the fragility of US grids, experts said Monday.The FBI is...
Dec 7 2022 // North Carolina’s insurance commissioner has asked insurers to give policyholders affected by power outages grace periods on paying premiums and filing claims.“This criminal act has had a significant impact on...
Dec 6 2022 // Tougher penalties for certain types of arsons and large-scale thefts at stores in North Carolina are among all or portions of 10 new state laws approved by the General Assembly this year that will take effect on...
Dec 6 2022 // Two children died and two adults were injured last weekend in a house fire in Salisbury, North Carolina.The Salisbury Post reported Saturday that the Salisbury Fire Department and Rowan County Emergency Services were...
Dec 5 2022 // A shooting attack on two North Carolina electrical substations has knocked out power to some 40,000 homes and businesses and prompted local officials to declare a curfew Sunday night.Local and national news outlets...
Nov 29 2022 // When an elementary school in Durham, North Carolina, caught fire in the middle of the night last April, officials found it strange that the alarm did not sound or alert the local fire department.It turned out that...
Nov 22 2022 // A small plane crashed in Winston-Salem on Saturday, killing two people, authorities said.Winston-Salem Police Department spokeswoman Kira Boyd told the Winston-Salem Journal that two people died in the crash of the small...
Nov 22 2022 // The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s winter weather prep is going digital this year with a snow plow simulator designed to give employees more training time without getting behind the wheel of an actual...
Nov 15 2022 // The global insurance brokerage and consulting firm, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired a North Carolina-based intellectual property insurance firm.PIUS, or Patent Insurance Underwriting Services, is considered a...