Student loan forgiveness is a taxable event for North Carolina state taxpayers, the state Revenue Department said in a press release Wednesday.

One of the big winners of vague “capital improvements” funding in the recently approved state budget is the relatively new I-95/I-40 Crossroads of America Economic Development Alliance, which is receiving $12.3 million.

North Carolina could get millions of dollars from the latest multi-state settlement with a pharmaceutical company implicated in the opioid epidemic.

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.