Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Voters in November will have a choice on lowering the cap for personal income tax in North Carolina and asking the General Assembly to generate a property tax levy limit. One other constitutional amendment may reach them as well. Lower Taxes for All NC, known also...

Will Doran/WRAL News The state House voted Wednesday to override one of the Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s vetoes from 2025, as Republican lawmakers gained enough support to push forward with one of about half a dozen veto overrides that have been unresolved for the past year. The House voted to...

Dan Kane/The Raleigh News & Observer After 10 years as a state probation officer, a dangerous job with low pay and high turnover, April Taylor saw an opportunity to start a new career with the N.C. Department of Insurance. Taylor’s great-uncle was a big supporter of Mike Causey, who was...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden spoke to WFAE Wednesday morning following the agency’s announcement that it would reopen Jail North. Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden on Wednesday pointed to worsening overcrowding at the county’s main detention center in uptown Charlotte as the main reason to reopen Jail...

Ana Risano/The Seven Lakes Insider Few things have been more cyclical in discussion than the Pinehurst Traffic Circle, with an ongoing debate between state transportation officials and Pinehurst about the future design of the five-spoke intersection. But the Department of Transportation has been clear: The design it unveiled in 2025...

Tom Barclay/WRAL News The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation will break ground on its new headquarters on Tuesday. SBI is hosting a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m. on May 19 at the site of its new campus on Garner Road in Raleigh. The campus will include a new headquarters...

Joe Bruno/WSOC News Charlotte City Councilmembers and the mayor’s office are slated for significant pay raises in Charlotte City Manager Marcus Jones’ budget. Right now Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles makes $49,774. The budget increases the mayor’s salary to $57,054, a 14.6% raise. The current total compensation for the mayor, which...

Matthew Sockol/WNCN Work has begun on a $6.3 million project intended to strengthen the resilience of electrical grids in eastern Cumberland and Sampson counties, state officials said. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality State Energy Office and Four County Electric Membership Corporation broke ground on the project in Magnolia...

Paul Woolverton/CityView Cumberland County leaders want a developer to build an upscale, full-service hotel with 126 rooms, meeting space, a restaurant, and a rooftop bar on Gillespie Street in front of the county courthouse in downtown Fayetteville. No price has been publicly discussed for the project. No decision has been...

Caroline Parker/Education NC One Wednesday in late April at Rockingham Early College High, students in Valencia Abbott’s 10th grade civics class read an article involving Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, and other real-world examples of rising health care costs. Abbott, who was named the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s 2025 National History...

Alan Wooten/The Center Square  Arrival of Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer, comes with North Carolinians paying $4.17 for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline and $5.39 for a gallon of diesel. Even at 36 cents better than the national average for traditional transportation energy, it’s an expensive...

Mary Helen Moore/Axios Raleigh A federal antitrust lawsuit targeting the broiler chicken industry is nearing settlement, putting one of North Carolina’s biggest agricultural sectors in the spotlight. Why it matters: Chicken is American consumers’ favorite — and typically cheapest — source of meat. Driving the news: The U.S. government and...

Rachel Heimann Mercader/CityView Fayetteville City Manager Doug Hewett proposed a $322 million budget for fiscal year 2027 on Thursday, telling council members the proposal “keeps the main thing the main thing” by protecting core services, finishing projects already underway, and making what he called “strategic investments that position Fayetteville for...

Chris Stiles/The Robesonian The Lumbee Tribe’s event commemorating its federal recognition may have physically been within the campus of UNC Pembroke on Saturday. But the celebration, in a way, stretched nationwide. Members of the tribe and its allies traveled to Pembroke from as far away as Washington state as several...

James Farrell/WFAE Radio Mallard Creek High School has filed a formal appeal after one of its winning track and field runners was disqualified for celebrating as he crossed the finish line, a decision that cost the school a chance at a third straight state championship. Now viral videos show that...