An N.C. Senate bill seeks to reduce adult care home inspections. Bill sponsor Sen. Jim Burgin says the bill grew from talks with home operators.

Families are facing rising grocery prices at the same time that many of the most vulnerable are losing access to the nation’s largest food assistance program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. More than 4 million Americans lost SNAP benefits between February 2025 and this February, according to analyses of the most recent federal data. The numbers are expected to increase.

An approximately three-mile line of vehicles stretched through Rodanthe on Monday as hundreds of vacationers sought to board the emergency ferry leaving Hatteras Island on the North Carolina coast. 

The NC State student center won’t be an early voting site this year. Republicans on the Wake County elections board said parking is too hard.

Once rare, the procedure has spiked under the second Trump administration that has entered into partnerships with several countries, some with human rights concerns, to take third-country removals from the U.S.

NC AG Jeff Jackson and other attorneys general sue to in Massachusetts federal court to stop the Postal Service absentee voting regulations.

The ruling specifically halts the department’s new definition of “professional” degrees, which was limited to 11 fields and would impose lower loan caps for groups not included in its definition, including nursing, teaching and social work. It comes just a week before the new definition was set to take effect July 1.

This story was produced by KFF Health News. CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. — Despite being in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, this rural county of roughly 85,000 people is still brimming with red foxes, coyotes, white-tailed deer, and wild turkeys. Read more Trump appoints committee to revive quest to remove Lisa Cook from Fed board…

Whether NC House and Senate members will have a budget deal by mid-June remains to be seen, but as the 2026 hurricane season kicks off, recovery from 2024’s Hurricane Helene is still not fully funded.

New NC law suspending gas tax takes effect immediately, but it may take some time before drivers see prices at the pump go down. The law allows retailers to recoup the taxes they’ve already paid on the gas in their storage tanks. It’s also unclear how much relief will actually be passed on to taxpayers.