Adam Wagner
NC Newsroom Editor/ReporterAdam Wagner is an editor/reporter with the NC Newsroom, a journalism collaboration expanding state government news coverage for North Carolina audiences. The collaboration is funded by a two-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
Wagner has more than 10 years of North Carolina reporting experience. Most recently, he served as Climate Change and Environmental Reporter at the News & Observer. There, he was part of a team that won several national awards for the investigative series Big Poultry, including an Investigative Reporters & Editors award and the Victor K. McElheny Award. As a reporter for the StarNews in Wilmington, he helped lead the team that broke the GenX/PFAS story. Wagner is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism & Honors program at Ohio University.
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The bill is meant to help families who want to adopt foster children maintain custody, establishes DHHS review in potential abuse and neglect cases involving children in foster care. -
The North Carolina bill would keep kids under 14 from having social media accounts while giving parents of teenagers more control. -
Sen. Michael Lee is serving his fifth term in the North Carolina Senate. -
If a House bill becomes law, officers could issue $100 fines to drivers distracted by dogs or children. -
North Carolina legislators are trying to ban the use of many hemp products on school grounds. -
The state Senate passed the Republican-sponsored bill along party lines. Democrats will try to prevent it from becoming law. -
North Carolina already makes many kinds of discrimination in disaster relief illegal. Now, a lawmaker wants to make discriminating based on politics a felony.
