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Vice President Kamala Harris is zeroing in on high food prices as inflation remains a big issue in the presidential race. Her campaign is previewing an economic policy speech that she'll give in North Carolina on Friday, promising to push for a federal ban on price gouging on groceries.

A panel has laid out specifics designed to bring numerous North Carolina state government agencies together to improve outcomes for prisoners when they are released, leading to reduced recidivism. The Joint Reentry Council created by Gov. Roy Cooper's executive order in January last week approved a plan to meet more than two dozen objectives by using over 130 different strategies.

The current longest-serving North Carolina House member is back at her former position leading a prominent committee. Republican Rep. Julia Howard of Davie County was elevated Wednesday by Speaker Tim Moore to a senior chair position on the House Finance Committee. This came more than three years after Moore and other GOP chamber leaders took the post away from Howard during a dispute over tax legislation.

Federal Medicaid regulators have signed off on a proposal by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper's administration to offer hospitals a financial incentive to eliminate patients' medical debt.

A federal judge has ruled a provision in North Carolina’s abortion laws requiring doctors to document the location of a pregnancy before prescribing abortion pills should be blocked permanently. But U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles restored on Friday another provision she halted last year that required abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy be performed in hospitals.

Three registered voters in North Carolina are suing the State Board of Elections, alleging that it violated their constitutional rights. At issue is the board's rejection last week of a petition seeking recognition for a political party that would put Cornel West on the presidential ballot.

More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in state's Medicaid expansion program in the seven months since it was launched.

A top aide to a powerful North Carolina state legislator has been named chief executive officer of the parent company of the Carolina Hurricanes.

A North Carolina judge has upheld the state employee health plan’s decision in 2022 to chose Aetna to administer the plan starting next January.

North Carolina Medicaid managed care has finally been extended to Medicaid enrollees who also need services for behavioral health or intellectual or developmental disabilities.