- The state Senate voted unanimously Thursday to create a new board of directors to manage the state's pension and other investments.
- The House's budget makes several moves to improve teacher pay that aren't in the Senate's proposal, with big raises for starting teachers and restoring "master's pay."
- The N.C. House voted 93-20 — with from some Democrats — on Wednesday to approve a budget that delays income tax cuts while providing modest raises for state workers and increasing starting teacher pay.
- 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 state House’s budget bill would delay scheduled income tax cuts while giving state employees and teachers larger raises than the Senate is proposing.
- 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.
- Efforts to mandate Asian American Pacific Islander history in North Carolina schools continue to be stalled on the state level. Meanwhile, Green Hope High School in Cary plans to pilot the Asian American history elective for Wake County Public Schools this fall.
- 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.