North Carolina legislative Republicans have agreed on how to expand work and funding to clean up, contain and evaluate unregulated industrial chemicals like the one officials say a plant dumped into the Cape Fear River. GOP...
Read MoreThe Atlantic Coast Conference wants to expand the NCAA Tournament and change several college basketball rules. Commissioner John Swofford said Thursday the league will propose legislation to expand the NCAA Tournament from 68 to...
Read MoreVacancies for North Carolina public school psychologists could be more easily filled under legislation addressing state licenses that has cleared one chamber of the General Assembly. The House voted unanimously Thursday for a...
Read MoreNorth Carolina legislative leaders say they’re committing to an expansion of tax breaks for companies promising thousands of jobs, a move that comes as people familiar with recruitment efforts tell The Associated Press tech...
Read MoreThe opening day of North Carolina’s General Assembly session will be marked by thousands of teachers descending on the Legislative Building to lobby for more school funding and higher salaries. The gavels go down on the House...
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Six U.S. states on Tuesday sued the maker of the opioid OxyContin of using deceptive marketing to...
Read MoreNorth Carolina Democratic lawmakers on Monday unveiled their to-do list if they got back some or all power at the Legislative Building after November, promising to raise teacher pay to the national average, expand Medicaid and...
Read MoreThe annual session of the North Carolina General Assembly begins as thousands of teachers descend on the Legislative Building for a school funding rally. That should slow down formal lawmaking activity on the first day...
Read MoreNorth Carolina is one of 30 locations nationwide where the Poor People’s Campaign is launching its six weeks of nonviolent direct action. Campaign officials say activists will protest Monday at the Bicentennial Mall in Raleigh,...
Read MoreThe North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday quickly rejected a challenge to regulators who decided a clean-energy advocacy group broke electric-service rules by selling solar power to a church. The justices heard oral arguments...
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