State Budget Director Charlie Perusse will retire in November after serving Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration since he took office. Cooper announced Monday that Perusse will be succeeded by his chief deputy state budget director, Kristin Walker.

State legislators will likely take at least part of the credit for keeping the ACC from moving its headquarters to Orlando.

The state budget bill enacted this year covers a third of the cost of the new Carolinas Aviation Museum, which will break ground later this month.

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The legislative oversight committee probing delays in hurricane recovery efforts has asked three of the top disaster relief leaders in Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration to speak at the panel’s Wednesday meeting.

The N.C. ABC Commission needs a new warehouse to store the state’s liquor supply, Chairman Hank Bauer told fellow commissioners last week.

Broadband internet expansion efforts took a big leap forward in recent weeks as the N.C. Department of Information Technology awarded $267 million in “GREAT” grants to internet providers, doling out the majority of the $350 million in federal funding the legislature allocated last year.

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.