U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was in North Carolina on Thursday to announce a $17.5 million rural broadband grant that will provide high-speed internet to about 2,700 households, 100 businesses and 76 farms in Warren and western Halifax counties.
Two polls out this week continue to show a narrow lead for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ted Budd, giving the congressman his largest lead since June in a prominent polling average.
It’s not getting much attention in a midterm, but the race for Raleigh City Council and mayor is a key contest for business and development this year.
The Republican-aligned independent expenditure group called “Citizens for a Better North Carolina” has been a major player in legislative campaigns this year. Now we have a better sense for how much it’s spending and where it’s coming from.
Just two weeks out from Election Day, the N.C. Democratic Party is at odds with the union that represents its campaign workers in the field.
When you pick up your ballot this election, you might wonder why there’s a write-in option for the U.S. Senate race but virtually none of the other contests at the top of the ballot.
One of Wake County’s most competitive races is on the southern end of the county, where Republicans are hoping they can flip a House seat and have more than just one member of their party in the Wake delegation.
Voter turnout so far exceeds the totals posted at this point in the 2018 midterms, but it’s hard to say exactly what that means.
A new report from State Treasurer Dale Folwell says hospitals are profiting from serving Medicare patients – the latest salvo from Folwell in his ongoing war on hospitals’ business model.
A second poll this week shows Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ted Budd with a slight lead that, if accurate, would get the race out of the “dead heat” territory where it’s been for months.
One of Mecklenburg County’s most competitive districts features a rematch between candidates who have already faced off in two previous elections – each winning once.
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson celebrated a win for bipartisanship this week. While Hudson is in the minority party in Congress, he worked with several Democrats from other states to enact a key legislative priority for the N.C. Community Health Care Association, which has 43 member centers across the state.
Facing flat and in some cases declining enrollment numbers, UNC System leaders are developing a new model for funding universities that are less dependent on enrollment numbers.
North Carolina beaches from the Outer Banks south to Oak Island will get about $20 million in state funding for renourishment and other related projects, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality announced this week.
While N.C. Supreme Court candidates are busy pledging to take politics out of the judicial branch, several dark money groups backing both sides are injecting millions of dollars worth of ads into the races. Those ads tie the candidates to hot-button issues like abortion, crime and law enforcement funding.
