NC House advances bill closing a property tax loophole for affordable housing that would increase local governments’ revenue by $22 million next fiscal year

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein announced Wednesday he has vetoed a bill that would have banned homeless encampments outside of official, city-maintained sites, saying it’s not a “real solution” to homelessness. 

Dallas Woodhouse has been reassigned from his job as elections liaison in the NC Auditor’s office after controversy over his role in early voting plans.

Former U.S. Department of Education officials in Republican and Democratic administrations sounded the alarm Monday over the agency’s efforts to outsource its special education programs and civil rights enforcement to other agencies.

The narrow committee divide, razor-thin after the death of the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, could mean the vote will hinge on two Republican senators spurned by President Donald Trump, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas.

The pause affects 2026 proposal requests for solar plans expected to generate power in the early 2030s. 

The White House initially said Trump supported the bill, and scheduled an unusually prominent signing ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in late June. But the president changed course just hours before he was scheduled to sign the bill and canceled the event. He has since dismissed the housing measure as unimportant compared to the SAVE America Act.

Cities and towns across the country have revived juvenile curfews and increased police patrols in response to an apparent uptick in large teen gatherings and fights organized through social media.

Republican lawmakers were eyeing mid-June for the rollout of North Carolina’s long-delayed budget. Now, they say that may not be possible.

Former Gov. Roy Cooper is the third leading fundraiser of the 2026 U.S. Senate midterms with roughly $35 million this cycle.