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A majority of a three-judge appeals court panel has given thousands of voters whose ballots are being challenged 15 days to verify their eligibility
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When Guillermo Nurse was elected mayor of Oxford, N.C, a city he’s called home for 15 years, he said unifying his fellow residents was his driving force. He’s been the mayor for a little more than a year, so we called him up to see how it's going.
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The state House voted Wednesday to move about 100 jobs away from state agencies overseen by Gov. Josh Stein's administration.
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The bill aligns with the Trump administration's objective to remove DEI from all facets of education.
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The state Senate is moving forward this week with a half-billion-dollar Helene recovery bill, making minor revisions to the House's funding proposal.
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North Carolina could add bitcoin and other cryptocurrency into its state investment portfolio under a bill moving in the state House this week. Advocates, including the new House speaker, think it could improve returns for the state pension fund.
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A rundown of where North Carolina's Congressional delegation stands on Ukraine, as of Monday, and how those views may have changed after Friday's contentious meeting between Trump and Zelensky.
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After a decade of being led by longtime Sen. Dan Blue, D-Wake, Democrats in the state Senate decided to elect a new leader this year. Sen. Sydney Batch became Senate minority leader last month.
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The Biden Administration poured billions of federal dollars into road and rail development, including a new passenger train rail line from Raleigh to Richmond, Virginia.
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Jeff Tiberii chats talks to a roundtable of reporters about the week's news, including possible cuts to Medicaid and a legislative bill to limit cell phone use in public schools.
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National parks across the U.S. are not immune to the Trump administration’s cuts, and North Carolina is already seeing the impact.
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Former News & Observer political columnist Rob Christensen talks with Leoneda Inge about his new book, Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century.