There’s two ways to get a state-maintained bridge named in someone’s honor. One involves getting a resolution passed by the State Board of Transportation, which routinely approves bridge and highway namings.

Gov. Roy Cooper announced $789.4 million in new water and sewer infrastructure funding for 385 projects across the state, and the price tags on some of the smallest projects are eye-popping.

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A few months back we looked at the history of state government’s Bath Building in downtown Raleigh, which is slated for demolition under the recently enacted budget.

Great news, y’all! North Carolina has “put political partisanship” aside to win a new business-friendly ranking from CNBC. At least that was the headline that garnered a lot of attention Wednesday, leading to chuckles from those of us who closely follow our state’s often rough-and-tumble partisan battles.

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Gov. Roy Cooper didn’t get many of his budget proposals included in the spending plan that legislators passed, but on Monday, he signed it anyway.

New jobs incentives legislation that surfaced in the final hours of the short session ended up in two different bills that passed the House.

For years now, state leaders have discussed how to handle declining revenues from the gas tax. And with gas prices sky high at the moment, the problem is likely getting worse as some drivers try to cut back.

One of the most interesting contrasts between the legislature and Gov. Roy Cooper’s budgets involves construction spending. The surplus means there’s up to $1 billion available to build stuff, and the governor and legislative leaders have very different ideas of what they’d like to build.

Lawmakers want to dramatically reshape the state government complex with $300 million in construction funding – the first major change in decades.