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A PCS to the NC Farmland and Military Protection Act was discussed during the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Recent investigations indicate nearly half of the inmates released under a 2021 pandemic settlement were later arrested on new charges.Â
According to the John Locke Foundation’s Energy Poverty Index, Orange and Pitt are the least affordable counties for energy prices in the state.
NC House Finance Committee advances property tax amendment for levy limits and tighter affordable housing exemptions.
NC House Democrats have filed HB 1073, the Fair Share for Public Schools Act, which would impose a new 7% income tax bracket on individual earnings above $1 million and direct an estimated $1 billion a year in proceeds to the State Public School Fund.
NC-11’s rating shifts in favor of Democrats, as Edwards, caught up in an ethics investigation, faces a strong Democratic challenger in the fall.
The family of a Wake Forest Baptist Health nurse who died from COVID in 2021 is asking the North Carolina Court of Appeals to revive its pursuit of workers’ compensation.
NC’s General Assembly has the political will and the moral clarity to act on this issue. The question is whether the law that passes will be one that sophisticated adversaries cannot work around.
State Auditor Dave Boliek is continuing to investigate soaring autism therapy costs amid growing concerns about potential Medicaid fraud and abuse. In politics, new NRCC polling shows Republican Laurie Buckhout and Democrat Don Davis locked in a dead heat in one of the state’s most competitive congressional races. A new study also finds cellphone bans […]
Two voters challenging state Senate districts in northeastern North Carolina are dropping their appeal in federal court.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is urging North Carolina’s highest court to reject a lawsuit from NC State University’s 1983 men’s basketball national championship team.
A bill from NC House Democrats would strip $6.75 million from pro-life pregnancy care centers and impose disclosure rules no other state-funded nonprofit faces.