A Wake County judge has rejected a losing Robeson County commissioner candidate’s request to block certification of the primary election results. The candidate accused the winning incumbent and another county commissioner of bribing voters during the Democratic primary.
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses the potential impact of a smaller North Carolina state budget surplus than officials had projected. King offered these comments during the May 10, 2024, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
A lawsuit challenging state Attorney General Josh Stein’s ability to pull millions of dollars out of North Carolina’s treasury for his grant priorities could head to a Wake County courtroom in June. The money is connected to a multimillion-dollar deal former Attorney General Mike Easley negotiated with Smithfield Foods in 2000.
The full 15-member state Court of Appeals will not rehear a case from western North Carolina involving a certificate-of-need dispute. The court announced that decision Wednesday, along with its decision to publish its original March opinion in the case.
A damning new report released Wednesday by North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell shows that 340B hospitals in North Carolina are overcharging cancer patients in the State Health Plan on average over five times the cost of cancer drugs.
Kamren Lewis talks about food insecurity amongst college studentes.
On Wednesday, the NC House of Representatives passed HB 942, the SHALOM Act, in a bipartisan vote of 105-4, one week after it was filed by House Speaker Tim Moore.
Plaintiffs challenging eCourts implementation in North Carolina have dropped state and local court officials from the list of defendants in their federal lawsuit. A court filing Tuesday confirmed that all 13 plaintiffs in the eCourts suit have agreed to dismiss complaints against five defendants.
Parents of two children expelled from a Charlotte private school in 2021 are making their second bid for the North Carolina Supreme Court to take the case. Their latest appeal Tuesday followed April's split 2-1 decision against the parents from the state’s second-highest court.
Braxton Winston, the Democratic candidate for North Carolina Labor Commissioner, was blasted Monday on Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police’s Facebook page for offering condolences for the four officers killed in an ambush on April 29 in East Charlotte.
Critics challenging Orange County’s school impact fees offered their arguments Monday to North Carolina’s highest court. It’s the latest step in a class-action legal dispute that started in 2017.
