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By Lynn Bonner
The North Carolina elections board says it has the names of nearly 1,600 potential noncitizens on its voter rolls who were flagged by a federal database. But as of two weeks ago, it hadn’t tried to contact any of them.
The U. S. Supreme Court is allowing states to use a Homeland Security database called SAVE to look for noncitizens on voter rolls. North Carolina opted into using the SAVE database last year, and in July the state board sent an email saying it had identified 1,599 potential noncitizen voters on the rolls.
Most of the North Carolina’s ferries have been in service for 25 years or more, and it’s estimated that in the next 20 years most of the fleet will reach the end of its “useful life.” (Photo: NCDOT)
By Christine Zhu
An approximately three-mile line of vehicles stretched through Rodanthe on Monday as hundreds of vacationers sought to board the emergency ferry leaving Hatteras Island on the North Carolina coast.
Last week’s nor’easter — a coastal storm with the strongest winds blowing from the northeast — severely damaged portions of North Carolina Highway 12, the only road connecting Hatteras Island and the northern Outer Banks.
Thousands of refugees living in North Carolina will lose Medicaid on Oct. 1, 2026. (Photo: Getty Images)
By Lynn Bonner
Starting Oct. 1, about 14,000 people living in North Carolina who were admitted to the United States for humanitarian reasons will no longer have comprehensive health insurance coverage through Medicaid.
The provision ending most Medicaid coverage for refugees and people granted asylum was in the giant bundle of safety net and tax cuts Congress approved last year in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Members of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Student Safety and Well-Being plan to advocate for more permanent funding for school resource officers in 2027. (Photo: Getty Images)
North Carolina high schoolers say schools feel safer, but experts want more school resource officers
By Clayton Henkel
Dr. Ellen Essick said there is a lot of good news about mental health in the 2025 North Carolina High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey. But there are areas that clearly need attention when it comes to the overall well-being of North Carolina’s young people.
Essick, section chief for N.C. Healthy Schools in the state Department of Public Instruction, presented her findings Monday before the N.C. Governor’s Advisory Council for Student Safety and Well-Being.
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Duke professor wins $800K ‘Genius Grant' to advance research rethinking memory |Raleigh News & Observer
Candidates for open NC Court of Appeals seat speak on judicial ethics, recusals|Raleigh News & Observer
Why Wake plans to require principals to allow teacher unions on school campuses |Raleigh News & Observer
Proposed Census changes could lead to consequences from NC undercount, experts say|WUNC.org
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WLOS.comA divided school board begins search for new CMS superintendent|WFAE.org
COMMENTARY
Paige Masten:Thom Tillis sure doesn’t seem optimistic about Republicans winning NC|Raleigh News & Observer
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