NCAA President Charlie Baker recently posted a statement urging lawmakers to ban collegiate-level prop betting, where bets are based on the individual accomplishments of individual players. In the statement, he mentioned his concern over prop betting鈥檚 effect on the integrity of games and athlete harassment.

UNC-Chapel Hill's Students for Justice in Palestine is calling for faculty to withhold grades until the university lifts suspensions of student protestors.

North Carolina lawmakers are considering a proposal to expand the definition of anti-Semitism in state law.

Republicans in the state Senate want to crack down on recent protests by restricting the use of masks in public. The new bill also would create a felony offense for blocking traffic.

State Senate leaders want to spend $248 million in the coming school year to ensure that private school vouchers are available to every family that applied, regardless of their income level.

A state Senate committee has approved legislation to force sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration agents.

CBD, hemp and other products that contain the active ingredient from marijuana are sold in North Carolina with few regulations. An effort in the state legislature aims to change that.

Gov. Roy Cooper released his proposal budget Wednesday as state lawmakers returned to Raleigh to begin the short session.

Republicans leading the House and Senate are talking about the traditionally 鈥渟hort鈥� session that starts Wednesday to finish by early summer. The legislature鈥檚 chief duty in even-numbered years is to adjust the second year of the two-year government operating budget that鈥檚 already enacted.

A new North Carolina forecast from the General Assembly and Gov. Roy Cooper鈥檚 administration expects revenues during this fiscal year and next to be higher than what's projected in the current state budget.