The state House Wednesday okayed three constitutional amendments on income and property taxes and Council of State vacancies. Each passed narrowly with votes from former Democratic Reps. Carla Cunningham (U-Mecklenburg) and Nasif Majeed (U-Mecklenburg).
North Carolinians pay more than many Americans for healthcare. The state ranks 38th nationally in healthcare access and affordability, according to a 2025 scorecard by the Commonwealth Fund.
Many OB-GYNs breathed a sigh of relief Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone can continue until after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling in the federal lawsuit Louisiana v. Food and Drug Administration.
With NC Senate OK, voters will decide in November whether to write General Assembly control over local property tax increases into the constitution.
America is experiencing a housing crisis, according to Renee M. Willis, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Sunday that the Taylor Farms lettuce sample that tested positive for the parasite cyclospora was actually a false positive.
The order expands on the North Carolina State Ethics Act, which prohibits public servants from insider trading.
The Trump administration illegally overhauled a U.S. Department of Homeland Security computer program in its hunt for noncitizen voters, a judge ruled Monday in a stinging decision that laid into federal officials for violating the privacy of millions of Americans.
Republican leaders at the General Assembly and the state Board of Elections are advancing new proposals to make voting in our state harder and more complex and we’ll get the details from the Policy Director of Common Cause North Carolina, Brooks Fuller
People, businesses and nonprofits are getting a slice of the semiquincentennial pie, some bigger than others. But there is no clear accounting of which entities are getting the bigger shares, and no one associated with either America250 or Freedom 250 offered a full explanation to States Newsroom.