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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 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.
A resolution in the state Supreme Court race, six months after Election Day. New oversight at the NC State Board of Elections, with Republicans now in control. And US Senator Thom Tillis breaks again with the president.
Rep. Ted Davis has spent five years working on legislation that would make Chemours pay for PFAS-removing upgrades built by Southeastern NC utilities.
The North Carolina House ed the proposed legislation this week.
The bill's sponsor said Senate Bill 484 seeks to balance the rights of protesters and those of employers and their workers.
Upgrades to the Kerr Lake Regional Water System's treatment plant are underway. Oxford officials warn that if the General Assembly claws the money back, that may cause an unexpected spike to water bills.
A bill to ban camping on public property is one of several Cicero Institute-ed pieces of legislation in the North Carolina General Assembly.