The N.C. Home Builders Educational and Charitable Foundation will be overseeing a new state-funded program with traveling virtual reality-style simulators designed to interest middle- and high-school students in hard-to-fill jobs in the construction, manufacturing, transportation and utility industries.
The new congressional map unveiled by the three special masters on Wednesday might not be a done deal. But with candidate filing starting today, the potential for more district changes didn’t stop several candidates from announcing their plans within hours of the court’s decision.
One of the biggest challenges in doing nonpartisan redistricting is that not everyone agrees on the end game.
It appears the sudden about-face is because legislators are willing to change who’s eligible for the program, a move that would help find a good home for the full $500 million allocated to the program.
Mental health providers are hard to find in North Carolina’s rural communities, and even at a statewide level, health care leaders are saying mental health troubles constitute a “state of emergency.”
In the end, the Senate adopted maps in a party-line vote after tabling amendments from Democrats without debating them. So what went wrong?
Businesses that missed the application deadline last month for the state’s Business Recovery Grants will get another shot at the money.
Judges handling the redistricting lawsuit now have an array of maps to choose from as they move toward a decision by midday Wednesday.
At one point during Monday’s meeting of a legislature committee tasked with charting the future of public education, Rep. David Willis lamented how politicized education debates have become.
After Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange, announced last week that she’ll resign from the House on March 31, Democratic Party leaders in her district will need to select a replacement to finish out her term.
Recent controversy over some tax-exempt N.C. hospitals billing patients who are eligible for charity care would be 80% resolved if state lawmakers passed Medicaid expansion, N.C. Sen. Dan Blue told a Charlotte business group Friday.
If you tuned into Friday’s inaugural meeting of the legislature’s study committee on Medicaid expansion hoping for a spirited debate on whether North Carolina should take the plunge, you probably left disappointed.
Farmers and fishermen will get a reprieve from potential tax filing penalties thanks to a legislative fix that sailed through both chambers Thursday.
The legislature has finalized its redrawn legislative and congressional districts, so now it’s up to the courts to decide what happens next.
For the moment, it’s still the new 14th congressional district, which incumbent Rep. Madison Cawthorn ditched to run for re-election in a neighboring district.
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