As the summer heat settles in, North Carolina Senate Democrats say lawmakers need to address consumer protections and how rising energy costs are passed on to residential customers.
Dr. Monty Sullivan is poised to become the next president of the North Carolina Community College System. Sullivan led the Louisiana Community and Technical College System for 12 years after holding leadership roles in the Virginia Community College System.
Violent crime in the United States fell by an estimated 9.3% in 2025, marking the largest year-to-year decline in the national violent crime rate since the FBI began estimating crime in 1936, according to new national data.
The NC budget helps rural childcare businesses by setting a “rate floor” that will end up paying them more per child.
NC broad elections bill would put more requirements on overseas voters, allow for more partisan staff in the state elections office.
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The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday that would require parental consent before a public elementary or middle school can update a student’s pronouns, gender markers or preferred name on records in order to receive federal funding.
It’s move-in week for college students across North Carolina. And once students have gotten settled into their dorms, their attention will turn to getting the classes needed to fulfill their chosen major. But which career paths are a safe bet in 2026?
Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Grants Pass v. Johnson decision — which allowed governments to enforce public camping bans without violating the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment — more than 350 cities and 14 states have adopted laws or measures to crack down on street homelessness.
Immigration advocates rallied outside the NC General Assembly urging lawmakers to oppose ICE detention expansion.