Senate Bill 257 would permit the N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill athletic departments to participate for the first time in the tax revenue distribution that could reach up to $5.8 million each. Also potentially eligible for up to $5.8 million is Appalachian State, East Carolina and UNC Charlotte.
North Carolina’s state budget, a year overdue, gives raises to thousands of teachers and state employees.
"(Roy) Cooper's advantage is not simply a function of Democratic support," said Michael Bitzer, director of Catawba College's Center for North Carolina Politics & Public Service. "His lead is being driven by independents, who currently support him by more than two-to-one over (Michael) Whatley."
Cities and counties would be required to notify homeowners by mail or email and hold hearings before certain increases.
He was a detention officer in the county jail but he wanted to go to Basic Law Enforcement Training.
House 1094 would treat a driver's license renewal earlier than 180 days before expiration similar to a duplicate license.
North Carolina's strict rules on what can be built on its coast, including a long-standing ban on permanent hardened erosion control structures like seawalls, could soon be repealed. A bill moving through the state Senate, intending to protect beaches and coastal infrastructure, would remove…
The department's snarky posting style has garnered fans and detractors alike.
"Simply holding a narrow lead in the mid-40s would not necessarily be enough to flip the seat," Sabato's Crystal Poll pollsters said. "In the past several polls however, (Roy) Cooper has been around the 50% mark."
"The exemption (in the 2025-26 Farm Act) would affect any building housing agriculture products, including fertilizer. This is a mistake. The exemptions should be more narrowly drawn. We really dodged a bullet with the Weaver fire, which involved fertilizer, which would have qualified for this exemption from building codes."
Chief Kamran Afzal said he thinks humor can be useful for the department but he said the department also has to be careful about what they post.
In one text message, the complaint alleges, Causey said: "I might jump your bones. Watch out!"; "What's between us stays between us;" "Just don't let me catch you in the room alone."
To protect the rights of life beginning at fertilization, House Bill 1232 reads: "any person who willfully seeks to destroy the life of another person, by any means, at any stage of life, or succeeds in doing so, shall be held accountable for attempted murder or for first degree murder, respectively."
Khymani James, 22, of New York alleged in a federal lawsuit that Foxx abused her role as a congresswoman by pushing for James’s removal from Columbia University.
The Iredell County Partnership for Young Children announced the conclusion of its role as the Region 9 Child Care Resource & Referral agency.
Due to the extreme heat, a cooling station is open at the McDowell Senior Center, located at 100 Spaulding Road, Marion.
“It was an absolute blitz," one of the museum staff said about the Battle of Ramsour's Mill in Lincoln County.
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“It is entirely possible that one day we will find it, and every once in a while, when we're bored with whatever project we're on and need a break, we go on a little wild goose chase down here and start looking."
As the college football season nears, EA Sports’ College Football 27 is set for release.
It was already evident based on the activity of the past week. Even though free agency tipped off at 6 p.m. Tuesday, officially giving NBA teams the green light to fire up negotiations with anyone whose contract expired at the end of the league’s fiscal year, the Charlotte Hornets began things on the sideline. With their roster shakeup still fresh from the trades sending previous core members ...
Maybe the Carolina Panthers aren't one of the more popular or successful franchises in the NFL.
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While laughing seems uniquely human, it is not. Researchers now have compared laughter in humans to laughter in the various great apes — chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans.
Legal experts said the ruling, represented another setback for transgender people fighting a growing array of state and federal restrictions targeting them — and for gay rights more generally.
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The arrest of a Raleigh man for allegedly denying his dog emergency surgery highlights a facet of North Carolina law that classifies failure to provide such care as animal cruelty.
“It’s unbelievable people still engage in dog fighting activities,” U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson said.
The U.S. attorney’s office said the stolen items were sold to customers throughout the United States and multiple other countries.
The suspect was reportedly armed with a firearm, taser and handcuffs and unlawfully searched both the driver and the vehicle.
The General Assembly estimates this will save the state $21.4 million in the upcoming fiscal year, which began Wednesday.
Republican state lawmakers could award $5 million in no-bid contracts to use AI for the purpose of providing tutoring support to students.
Senate Bill 257 would permit the N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill athletic departments to participate for the first time in the tax revenue distribution that could reach up to $5.8 million each. Also potentially eligible for up to $5.8 million is Appalachian State, East Carolina and UNC Charlotte.
The commissioners also voted to put a sales tax increase on the ballot this fall.
