Toyota held a ceremony to mark the opening and start of production at its first North American electric battery manufacturing plant in Liberty, Randolph County.
"This is the way our democracy was set up and is supposed to work."- Sen. Bobby Hanig, R-Currituck.
North Carolina’s shrimp industry faces a potential crackdown as state senators pushed forward a bill on Tuesday with a controversial amendment banning shrimp trawling within a half mile of the shoreline and inshore waters.
Experts say the General Assembly is shifting towards a younger demographic.
North Carolina’s governor and lieutenant governor had anything but a typical Monday as one attended an event marking a major religious holiday in the state while the other traveled across the world near a war zone.
On Tuesday, Oct. 10th, House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and House Majority Leader John Bell, R-Wayne, held a press conference to highlight continued funding in the state budget for the Veterans Justice Initiative (VJI). The initiative was “launched by The Independence Fund, which assists law enforcement agencies, first responders, and frontline workers to understand the nuances and true scope of...
On Friday afternoon, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed two bills including one that would prevent state pension money from being invested using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria in state investment decisions. The bill passed the N.C. Senate on June 18 with no Democrat support. “This bill does exactly what it claims to stop. For political reasons...
On Tuesday, the North Carolina Senate passed House Bill 750 (H.B. 750), a bill that prohibits the use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria from being a factor in state investment decisions, by a vote of 29-18. The bill also bans economically targeted investments (ETI) requirements in state employment decisions. All Senate Democrats present...
Both bills would essentially ban “environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria" as well as “economically targeted investments (ETI) requirements” from being used by state agencies and state pension plans.
On Tuesday, the Senate Rules Committee cleared a bill that helps pave the way for nuclear energy to play a significant role in North Carolina’s energy future. The bill revises the definition of renewable energy to use the term “clean energy” instead. Senate Bill 678 (S.B. 678) would replace the term “renewable energy” with “clean...
Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, today announced his intended committee appointments for the 2023-24 legislative biennium. Sen. Jim Perry, R-Lenoir, was appointed to be a chair of the highly sought-after Senate Finance Committee. In a post charged with writing the state budget, Sen. Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, is stepping in as chair of the Appropriations/Base Budget Committee.
