Republican-backed constitutional amendment to strip the governor’s appointment power over the NC State Board of Education advanced Tuesday

Congress must pass a government funding bill before the new fiscal year starts on Oct. 1 in order to avoid a shutdown just weeks before the November midterm elections.

Doctors and parents of formerly sick children in NC promote insurance coverage for biomarker testing as part of medical treatment.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order that aims to reshape guidance surrounding childhood vaccines, standing alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and was met with immediate pushback.

The decision by D.C. District Court Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, represents a setback for Democratic groups, lawmakers and other groups including the NAACP that have sued to stop the order ahead of the midterm elections in November. The March 31 order faces at least five lawsuits.

The N.C. Board of Elections is planning to ask the 1,599 registered voters identified by a federal database as potential noncitizens to either confirm their citizenship or ask to be removed from the state voter list. 

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein signed two public safety bills into law on Thursday.

North Carolina is reporting 561 cases of cyclosporiasis as of July 20, 2026, but the cause of the state’s growing outbreak remains a mystery. 

Measles cases for the calendar year surpassed 4,000 for the first time in decades, with as many as five deaths in Pennsylvania, as the federal government steps in with financial help for states but also fans vaccination fears and skepticism.

Two Black voters are dropping their challenge to two NC Senate districts in light of the US Supreme Court weakening the Voting Rights Act.