North Carolina

A third endangered whale has been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the East Coast, marking an alarming end to the year for a species threatened with extinction.

Our next guest says that practically all boats and ships use a 200-year-old technology when it comes to their propellers and that he has discovered a better way. And he appears to be proving it as our state’s Innovision Awards program recently recognized his company as a finalist in their small business category.

Our next guest says that practically all boats and ships use a 200-year-old technology when it comes to their propellers and that he has discovered a better way. And he appears to be proving it as our state’s Innovision Awards program recently recognized his company as a finalist in their small business category.

Legislation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy is becoming law in North Carolina after the state's Republican-controlled General Assembly successfully overrode the Democratic governor's veto. The House completed the second and final part of the override Tuesday night after a similar three-fifths majority voted for the override earlier Tuesday in the Senate. The outcome represents a major victory for Republican legislative leaders who needed every GOP member on board to enact the law over Gov. Roy Cooper's opposition. The vote comes as abortion rights in the U.S. faced another tectonic shift with lawmakers also debating laws to sharply limit abortion in South Carolina and Nebraska.

Atrium Health, the largest hospital system in North Carolina, says it recorded the $640 million loss on Medicare in 2019. But for the same year the hospital system claimed $82 million in profits from Medicare and an additional $37.2 million in profits from Medicare Advantage in a federally required financial document, according to a report released Oct. 25 by the North Carolina state treasurer’s office.

A two-decade, joint effort between South Carolina and North Carolina has sought to correct errors made surveying the boundary line between the two states.…