As a Native American activist, Crystal Cavalier-Keck has journeyed thousands of miles to help protect the lives and lands of Indigenous communities.
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools will meet with Forsyth Technical Community College on Thursday to talk about revisions to its memorandum of understanding weeks after a drag performer straddled a high school student during a Pride event on campus in March.
Two Forsyth County Republicans have filed a bill that would make it illegal to perform in drag in public or when minors are present.
Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough and three members of his team abruptly left a meeting with school leaders on Tuesday after a school board member criticized school resource officers.
U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson’s 1.6 million TikTok followers aren’t all there to be his friends, he learned this week.
News of Cotham’s decision provoked divergent reactions from each party, with Republicans celebrating the move and Democrats calling for her resignation.
The state received F grades in mental health, school-based health, housing and economic security, and birth outcomes in the report released by NC Child and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine.
Lowering the spending threshold for feature-film productions to qualify for state grants is the goal of a N.C. House bill filed by four Triad Republicans.
Sen. Timothy Moffitt, a Hendersonville Republican, introduced SB 430, “Eliminate Participation Trophies,” on Thursday.
The two refused to certify election results despite finding no flaws in the balloting.
A bipartisan bill that aims to prohibit the use of predatory real estate service agreements will receive its first committee hearing Wednesday.
Senator Jarvis said emissions tests hit low-income families the hardest because "a lot of times a light will come on and they’ll have to spend $500, $1,000 for issues that are usually just sensors.”
Between 450,000 and 650,000 North Carolinians have been moved a historic step closer to predictable and potentially life-changing health-care coverage.
Sharon Carr, the Richmond Police Department's general counsel, wrote that it would take her 151 hours to read the policies for possible redactions under FOIA.
The fast-tracking of the state House’s Medicaid expansion bill was completed Thursday with a 92-22 vote on third reading of House Bill 76.
North Carolinians would finally be able to celebrate happy hour again if a bill filed Monday in the General Assembly passes.
The labor commissioner is tasked with promoting the health, safety and general well-being of North Carolina workers.
Republicans from North Carolina who are bringing the case to the high court argue that a provision of the U.S. Constitution known as the elections clause gives state lawmakers virtually total control over the “times, places and manner” of congressional elections, including redistricting, and cuts state courts out of the process.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is about to confront a new elections case, a Republican-led challenge asking the justices for a novel ruling that could significantly increase the power of state lawmakers over elections for Congress and the presidency.
Over the course of the next four weeks, activists from Decarcerate Now NC, a coalition of local civil rights and criminal justice organizations, will gather for daily vigils to raise awareness and put pressure on the Democratic governor to reduce the number of people imprisoned across the state.
In 2022, Gov. Roy Cooper added six more bills to the veto count for the 2021-2022 legislative session, bringing the total to 22 over the past two years and 47 in all since Democrats broke the supermajority.
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Republican Brian Echevarria is down 425 votes, or 1.56%, to Democrat Diamond Staton-Williams for N.C. House District 73. But the Cabarrus County Board of Elections still has votes left to count.
The legislature next year looks likely to have no Hispanic representatives in a state where over 10.7% of the population identifies as Hispanic. Proportional representation in the General Assembly would mean 17 or 18 Hispanic members among the state’s 170 legislators.
Voters can watch live online via Microsoft Teams or watch the video later on the State Board of Elections website.
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The court is weighing challenges to admissions programs at the University of North Carolina and Harvard that use race among many factors in seeking a diverse student body.