GREENVILLE — North Carolina U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy joined the House’s powerful tax-writing committee on Wednesday, marking a significant boost in influence for the Pitt County Republican, even while serving in the minority. Murphy’s appointment […]
RALEIGH – Thermo Fisher Scientific will create 290 new jobs in Pitt County in an announcement from Gov. Roy Cooper and the N.C. Department of Commerce. The company will invest $154 million to expand its […]
RALEIGH – Last week, WRAL accused state Rep. Perrin Jones (R-Pitt) and other Republican lawmakers of perpetuating “social media rumors” and “conspiracy theories” about COVID-19 data. In an article dated Aug. 11, Jones, an anesthesiologist […]
North State Journal’s 100 in 100 series will showcase the best athlete from each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. From Alamance to Yancey, each county will feature one athlete who stands above the rest. Some […]
A team from North Carolina had to travel to Oregon to win its second Little League Softball World Series championship since 2015 last summer. For the next five years, the World Series will be coming […]
GREENVILLE — Greenville has long been known for football stadiums, barbecue joints and hospitals. It’s downtown, however, had seen its better days. Thanks to local supporters, downtown Greenville is now “Uptown Greenville”. With new developments […]
RALEIGH — A state legislator aided by conservatives on Capitol Hill won the Republican nomination Tuesday for the North Carolina congressional district seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Walter Jones Jr. Voters in […]
RALEIGH — The N.C. House passed a bill Tuesday that would increase the number of breweries allowed to distribute their own beer without using a wholesaler. The bill, H.B. 363, increases the cap on self-distributing […]
RALEIGH — Stanford University will welcome several graduate students with North Carolina connections in its 2019 class of Knight-Hennessey Scholars. The prestigious scholarship, named for Philip H. Knight, a Stanford alumnus and co-founder of Nike […]
RALEIGH — U.S. Rep. Walter Jones Jr., a Republican congressman who has represented N.C. for over two decades, has entered hospice care. A press release issued Saturday on Jones’s U.S. House website says that his […]
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