Students from across North Carolina urged lawmakers to invest more in public schools, citing concerns including mental health services

The bill would reduce some regulatory hurdles, including environmental reviews, to home construction and expand the possible uses of federal housing funds. It includes a high-profile provision to ban private equity firms from buying single-family homes.

The Trump administration has argued that TPS has become a “de facto asylum program” and that conditions in Haiti have improved enough to end the designation. It appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court in March, and the justices heard oral arguments on an emergency basis.

The 2-1 decision means the Department of Homeland Security can continue with expanded use of expedited removal after lower courts blocked the policy over concerns that immigrants were not receiving due process.

A new study published last month by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that since the Dobbs decision, in states where abortion bans took effect, miscarriage management has shifted away from medical intervention toward more of a “wait-and-see” approach.

Sen. Ralph Hise (R-Mitchell) told members of the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Western North Carolina Recovery Monday that legislators are working to finalize the state budget, but the exact appropriation for Hurricane Helene relief has yet to be settled on.

Orange County is mourning the death of longtime county Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford, who died unexpectedly Sunday. Bedford was 67.

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.

As public concerns about energy sucking data centers continue to grow, we’ll get an update on Duke Energy’s latest carbon plan and its assumptions about these facilities in a chat with the North Carolina policy director for the Environmental Defense Fund, Will Scott

The North Carolina legislature’s 2026 session continues to linger on with no end or state budget in sight, and we’ll get an update on several subjects under discussion in an extended conversation with Wake County state Senator, Lisa Grafstein