Mary Helen Moore
NC Newsroom ReporterMary Helen Moore is a reporter with the NC Newsroom, a journalism collaboration expanding state government news coverage for North Carolina audiences. The collaboration is funded by a two-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She can be reached at [email protected]
Moore is a native of Halifax County and a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate. She loves reading, fishing, doing puzzles, and baking. Her state reporting experience includes coverage of real estate and growth at the News & Observer, where she most recently served as Durham reporter. She has won numerous journalism awards in North Carolina and Florida.
Western North Carolina suffered around $60 billion in damage from the deadly storm.
Sports gambling brought in $128 million in taxes the first year it was legal in North Carolina. Here's what the House and Senate budgets say about where that money goes.
The N.C. House began releasing its budget proposal Thursday, and Republicans are planning cuts in what's expected to be a tight budget year.
The North Carolina House ed a bill that would put that question to voters in 2025.
Lawmakers want to force a recreational fishing season for Southern flounder, which experts say is overfished and in danger of collapse.
The North Carolina House ed the proposed legislation this week.
A bill to ban camping on public property is one of several Cicero Institute-ed pieces of legislation in the North Carolina General Assembly.
The 60-mile trail would through parts of Gaston, Catawba and Lincoln counties.
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Recreational fishing for the species is tightly regulated.