In-person early voting for the May 14 runoff election gets underway
In-person early voting for the May 14 second primary/runoff election began Thursday at 8 am. It will end on Saturday, May 11 at 3 pm.
Before the short session began in the General Assembly Wednesday, Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper laid out his recommended budget proposal for the last time as governor.
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...
In what might be called a case of whiplash, Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast has once again changed plans for its $4 billion electric vehicle factory in Moncure, Chatham County.
A report given by Karen Brinson Bell, executive director for the North Carolina State Elections Board (NCSBE), along with Paul Cox, general counsel for NCSBE, to a Joint Legislative Elections Oversight Committee on Wednesday not only gave a wrap-up of the March primary and addressed other issues, but also raised questions by some on a contradictory measure taken by the board recently regarding early voting site changes.
The North Carolina General Assembly's Fiscal Research Division projects that while inflation and interest rates are still up, the state will have $400 million over in collections in the current fiscal year and $1 billion additional revenue coming into the state coffers in FY 2024-25.
Construction is on hold at VinFast’s proposed $4 billion electric vehicle factory in Moncure, Chatham County, after the electric vehicle maker revised its plans for a scaled-down version of the facility.
After requesting an average rate hike of 42% in homeowners’ insurance rates in January, now comes word that the North Carolina Rate Bureau (NCRB) wants to raise mobile home fire policies (MH-F) an average of 83% and 50% for casualty policies (MH-C), both broken down over a three-year period. That’s according to a press release from the North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI).
A Statewide Single Audit released by the North Carolina Office of the State Auditor finds the state's public school system did not effectively track millions in federal pandemic recovery funds.
In the new State Auditor’s Statewide Single Audit, NCDHHS didn’t properly monitor millions in federal funding for Medicaid, foster care, substance abuse and other government programs.
Department management told auditors that employee turnover in positions responsible for overseeing the monitoring process prevented the completion of monitoring during the year.
Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan was in Fayetteville this week to announce new rules on PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) also known as “forever chemicals” in drinking water systems across the US.