North Carolina’s 2026 budget delivers the largest average teacher pay raise for the state in 20 years, Stein said, and the largest increase in starting teacher pay in about 50 years.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins wants to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, opening tens of thousands of areas within the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests to future road development.
New housing projects can sometimes stall out as a developer applies to city or county planning boards and goes through cycles of inspections, reviews and approvals. Now, cities are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to address one of the most persistent sources of housing permitting delays: incomplete applications. And two new streams of federal money aim to help them.
Jackson and a bipartisan group of 28 other attorneys general allege the tech giant deceived the public about the harms of their product. The trial is underway in Oakland, Ca.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration will face challenges securing Senate confirmation after the committee chairman in charge of that process expressed doubts.
A federal judge in the District of Columbia issued an order Wednesday blocking U.S. Health and Human Services from implementing sweeping changes to grants under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program while a lawsuit proceeds, but dozens of existing grants that were canceled this summer will remain so for now, unless the administration chooses to reinstate the funds.
Violent crime in the United States fell by an estimated 9.3% in 2025, marking the largest year-to-year decline in the national violent crime rate since the FBI began estimating crime in 1936, according to new national data.
North Carolina’s budget sets technical requirements for a statewide digital credential system that closely resemble features offered by DigiCred.
When young children and teenagers get into trouble, the question often comes quickly: Where were their parents? That question is again shaping public policy in communities across the country, as state and local lawmakers and prosecutors increasingly look for ways to respond to concerns about youth crime and public disorder.
N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson, joined by state food bank leaders, received 270,000 eggs on Tuesday, the first in a series of deliveries of three million eggs from an antitrust lawsuit.