NC Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, hopes report on Russian interference with American elections will be released before August.
Senate leader Phil Berger announces legislation designed to get more children reading at grade level by the end of 3rd grade. Reading performance for 3rd-grade students has actually dropped since the Read To Achieve program was launched in 2012.
Senate leader Phil Berger filed a bill changing how reading is taught to students, aiming to improve Read To Achieve, which was designed to improve reading skills but has seen scores drop among third graders.
Kanautica Zayre-Brown is a transgender inmate held at an all male prison in North Carolina near the Virginia line. Advocates including the ACLU demanded a prison transfer and gave Gov. Roy Cooper a deadline.
When North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey promotes a proposed ban on using handheld cellphones while driving, he will be standing in front of the car Ashley LeeAnn Johnson was driving when she died.
North Carolina Rep. Cody Henson, R-Transylvania, who is charged with stalking his estranged wife, must relinquish his firearms, a judge ruled on Thursday, March 28, 2019.
A bill sponsored by Senate leader Phil Berger allows retired North Carolina teachers to return to the classroom without hurting their retirement benefits. They’d be paid to work in schools with high poverty and/or low test scores.
State universities could offer much cheaper in-state tuition to out-of-state athletes under legislation that proposes to give athletes legal, medical and academic protections.
House Democrats introduced bills Thursday to repeal the remnants of HB2; ban the use practice conversion therapy on minors and disabled adults; and expand anti-discrimination laws to include gender identity, sexual orientation and military or veteran status.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham and House Speaker Tim Moore discussed the Buncombe County sheriff, Quintin Miller, saying ICE detainers aren’t “valid warrants.” We fact check the sheriff’s claim.
The North Carolina House of Representatives passed bills that would change how the state’s public schools are assessed under the A-F school performance grading system. They also passed a bill allowing schools to start earlier in August.
The North Carolina House of Representatives votes 94 to 16 to prohibit public schools from using corporal punishment to discipline students. Opponents defended the use of spanking as a way of punishing students who misbehave at school.
A controversial proposal to force North Carolina sheriffs to help federal immigration agents deport people passed its first hurdle at the General Assembly Wednesday.
North Carolina could permanently ban big wind-power projects from the most energy intensive parts of the state's Atlantic coast, which Republican Sen. Harry Brown said would be necessary to prevent hindering military training flights.
A new ad video Rep. Mark Walker put out in March 2019 pokes fun at political campaign ads — and House Democrats’ plan to help finance them. The ad targets HR 1, the sweeping election-law bill House Democrats passed.
Allison Riggs, a senior voting rights attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, represented the League of Women Voters of North Carolina in a case about partisan gerrymandering at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 26, 2019.
The Supreme Court heard arguments about the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina’s congressional maps. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brett Kavanaugh asked questions.
Rep. Marcia Morey and other NC House Democrats began another push for a law that would allow guns to be taken from people considered dangerous. Durham Sheriff Clarence Birkhead supports the bill.
North Carolina’s ban on abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy is unconstitutional, a court ruled. The state ban has exceptions for certain emergencies, but critics said it conflicted with Supreme Court rulings.
Senate leader Phil Berger announces legislation designed to get more children reading at grade level by the end of 3rd grade. Reading performance for 3rd-grade students has actually dropped since the Read To Achieve program was launched in 2012.
