The state is poised to pass a budget that was due last year, though disagreements between Republicans triggered rare defections on the vote.

The NC House canceled Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of a bill allowing the state to participate in a federal tax-credit voucher program.

The House Finance Committee gave its approval to a bill to close an affordable property tax loophole for affordable housing.

The House gave final approval to a controversial proposal to block some local governments from using new property tax revaluations in 2026. It now goes to Gov. Josh Stein.

Thousands of local service providers and volunteers are working hard to keep communities functioning and we’ll talk to two of them — Sara Walker and Melissa Evers of Wake County Meals on Wheels –

Longtime North Carolina state lawmaker Sen. Kevin Corbin, R-Macon, announced Wednesday evening he will not run to replace U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards on the ballot on November. Instead, he says he will continue his reelection campaign for state Senate.

The nation’s election infrastructure is vulnerable to cyberattacks by foreign actors, President Donald Trump said during a primetime address Thursday night, citing a batch of documents he declassified — but providing no proof broad interference actually occurred or affected an election outcome.

The decision is likely to impact multiple lawsuits across the country in which federal judges have halted President Donald Trump’s efforts to strip legal protections granted to more than 1.3 million immigrants with TPS because they hail from countries the U.S. initially deemed too dangerous for return.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, responsible for tracking and issuing recalls of dangerous products sold in the U.S., began discreetly pressuring hospital executives this year to share personally identifiable health data with a private contractor.

The North Carolina Department of Commerce estimates that data centers could soon cost the state $450 million a year under current tax exemptions.