The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling favoring a North Carolina government board in its licensing dispute with a drone-operating company. Appellate judges agreed that the board did not violate the plaintiffs' constitutional rights.
Major North Carolina media outlets support a lawsuit accusing Pinehurst officials of skirting open-meetings requirements by conducting public business through email. A media coalition filed paperwork Friday to submit a friend-of-the-court brief to the state’s second-highest court.
Sen. Rachel Hunt, D-Mecklenburg, has filed a bill that, if passed into law, would codify abortion access in the North Carolina Constitution. Hunt is the Democratic nominee in the 2024 North Carolina lieutenant governor's race.
Friday marked 70 years since the US Supreme Court declared that government-enforced separate public schools for students of different races was unconstitutional in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Yet our public school enrollment boundaries today are often a near-mirror of the redlined housing maps going back to the 1930s and 1940s —...
