Latest North Carolina state government News
NC Senate threatens to end budget talks over spending dispute with House
RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Senate's top leader said Wednesday that chamber Republicans are prepared to walk away from budget negotiations if the House remains unwilling to give way and lower its preferred spending levels. With private budget talks between GOP...
With spending talks idling, North Carolina House to advance its own budget proposal
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — While spending talks idle between Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly, the House is rolling out its own proposed budget adjustments for the coming year, and plans to vote on them next week, Speaker Tim Moore said Tuesday. House and Senate GOP...
North Carolina state senator drops effort to restrict access to autopsy reports
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An effort to exempt autopsy reports from North Carolina's public records requirements was abandoned Tuesday by a Senate Republican, who said it's more important to win approval for a streamlined bill that would add punishments for distributing a drug the White House calls an...
More presidential candidates could be on North Carolina ballot with signature drives
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — This fall's presidential ballot in battleground North Carolina appears poised to lengthen after three political movements seeking to run candidates filed voter signature lists with state election officials by a Monday deadline. Groups that want Robert F....
Ohio man gets probation after pleading guilty to threatening North Carolina legislator
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An Ohio man received supervised probation after pleading guilty to threatening to kill a North Carolina state senator in a social media message last year. Nicolas Alan Daniels, of West Portsmouth, Ohio, entered a plea to one felony count of threatening a...
In one North Carolina county, it's 'growth, growth, growth.' But will Biden reap the benefit?
SILER CITY, N.C. (AP) — At the epicenter of President Joe Biden’s promised economic boom, a slow tractor can still halt traffic. Just 81,000 people live in rural Chatham County, North Carolina. There are 1,076 farms. The old mill now houses a dance studio, a grocer and a...
City's red-light camera program was lawful after all, North Carolina justices say
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A pair of North Carolina local governments didn’t skirt state laws by creating a red-light camera enforcement system where nearly a fourth of collected penalties failed to remain within the area school district, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The...
The late Rev. Billy Graham is immortalized in a statue unveiled at the US Capitol
A bronze sculpture of the late Rev. Billy Graham was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, with Christianity's most prolific evangelist once known as “America’s Pastor” immortalized in the halls of Congress on behalf of his native North Carolina. Graham's likeness,...
North Carolina revenue decline means alternate sources for voucher spending considered
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Recently lowered revenue projections for North Carolina state government are making some state legislators think more carefully about how to pay to cover the new high demand for K-12 private school scholarships. The Senate passed earlier this month a measure...
Editorial Roundup: North Carolina
Greensboro News and Record. May 11, 2024. Editorial: What vile posts? Antisemitism bill shines a harsh light (again) on Robinson As a political calculation — and make no mistake, it is one — a GOP-fueled bill in the North Carolina legislature that purports to...
