RALEIGH — Chances that a budget standoff between Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will be resolved soon appear small enough that GOP legislators are looking to spend more funds to keep state government […]
What constitutes a crime in North Carolina isn’t as obvious as you’d think, thanks to our confusing and ineffective criminal code. Sometimes our code lets the guilty walk free. Other times it ensnares a person, like […]
In his first two years in office Governor Cooper held a press conference surrounded by his far-left supporters to announce his intention to veto the budget passed by the General Assembly. And this year, for […]
RALEIGH — Attorneys for North Carolina Republican lawmakers pushed back hard in state court on Monday over accusations the legislators misled federal judges in an earlier redistricting lawsuit. Republican legislative leaders filed a response to […]
RALEIGH — After the N.C. Sheriffs Association expressed concerns about a House bill passed in early April to require cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers, members of both chambers of the N.C. General Assembly […]
RALEIGH — Leaders of N.C.’s largest teacher lobbying group will keep pressing for more public education funding because they say their pleas during a Legislative Building rally last month were ignored. The N.C. Association of […]
RALEIGH — The legislature’s annual attempt to reduce or alter North Carolina regulations has advanced through the Senate, absent a provision allowing landfills to accept computers and televisions again. The chamber voted 39-5 on Monday […]
RALEIGH — Reducing prisoner solitary confinement, decreasing some correctional officer work-shift lengths and reinstating an exam for officer promotions are among proposals made by a North Carolina Senate committee examining prison safety. The Insider government […]
RALEIGH — Republicans in the N.C. House were unable to achieve the three-fifths vote necessary to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of S.B. 359, the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The override vote, at […]
RALEIGH — North Carolina budget negotiations can begin in earnest after the House formally rejected the Senate’s two-year spending plan. The House declined Tuesday to accept the Senate budget approved last week. The House approved […]
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