A bill requiring local governments to regulate and police homeless camps is going to Gov. Josh Stein’s desk after winning final approval, mostly along party lines.

Several states have enacted or considered laws this year to increase reporting and oversight of child neglect and abuse. Some of the new laws came after high-profile deaths or abuse cases, with lawmakers citing warning signs such as repeated visits from child services or complaints about unsafe family dynamics. The issue often draws support — even unanimously — across party lines.

The multi-state lawsuit challenging the rule says the agency unlawfully imposed a stricter test for determining who qualifies as medically frail, requiring applicants to demonstrate not only that they have a serious medical condition, but also that the condition substantially limits their ability to satisfy the work requirement. The states argue that Congress never authorized that additional hurdle.

Climate-related risk is now the primary cause of increasing insurance premiums.

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.

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.

States, cities and counties filed a pair of lawsuits Monday challenging new federal rules that will allow immigrants’ use of safety net resources to be taken into account for green cards and other applications to stay in or enter the country.

The bill would prohibit software developers from designing, training, or modifying AI systems for use in healthcare coding if the AI system is designed to “promote, incentivize or result in upcoding.”

Are North Carolina’s new state budget investments in public schools enough to make a real difference? We’ll talk to David Rice of the research and advocacy nonprofit, Public Ed Works, to find out

Shirlye Grandy served nearly six years in the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women. She’s now the public arts project coordinator for Arise Collective, a Raleigh nonprofit dedicated to helping incarcerated women across the state.