State officials say flu-related deaths in North Carolina have reached a modern-day record this season. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that one person died from flu in the past week, bringing this...
Read MoreNorth Carolina officials are resolving a formal complaint of environmental racism by promising tougher oversight of industrial swine operations blamed for polluting the air and water. The state Department of Environmental...
Read MoreNorth Carolina education officials are asking legislators to hold off on another $5 million budget cut this year, citing results from a nearly $1 million efficiency audit of the state’s public schools support agency. The State...
Read MoreFour North Carolina voters can pursue their libel lawsuit against allies of former Gov. Pat McCrory and a Virginia law firm that tried to help the Republican politician’s unsuccessful effort to disqualify votes and win...
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Read MoreAn effort by North Carolina civil rights groups and citizens opposing Republican policies at the North Carolina General Assembly is returning to where it began five years ago. Movement organizers planned a get-out-the-vote rally...
Read MoreThe North Carolina legislature has revived public discussion over redrawing judicial election districts and how judges are chosen after a three-month hiatus. But it’s unclear if the renewed conversation Friday in a House-Senate...
Read MoreA public water utility studied what it was serving to its 200,000 North Carolina customers and found it contained multiple unregulated industrial chemicals with uncertain health effects, including some substances that university...
Read MoreNorth Carolina’s tax collectors are refunding money to thousands of taxpayers whose electronic payments were wrongly subtracted twice from their bank accounts. The Department of Revenue said Thursday the error happened because a...
Read MoreNorth Carolina’s attorney general on Wednesday challenged regulators for allowing Duke Energy to start charging consumers hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up coal ash dumps and add a potential profit margin. State...
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