Nearly 30% of US workers need a license to perform their duties, and the barriers to market entry can be onerous in North Carolina.
A split federal Appeals Court panel has blocked Novant Health’s $320 million purchase of two Iredell County hospitals. The Federal Trade Commission had asked the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals to issue an injunction as the federal agency appeals a lower court order.
Among the notable items in the North Carolina House budget released on Monday night is new funding for a school of engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill, and requirements that the medical programs are following merit-based policies.
The North Carolina House’s proposed budget revisions would clear the waitlist for the Opportunity Scholarship Program and raise starting teacher pay, in addition to numerous other adjustments to K-12 public education appropriations.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) voted 4-1 against a complaint at a board meeting Monday that stated the database verification of registrants isn’t fully compliant with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
Groups with no direct connection to a fired Winston-Salem State University professor's legal dispute have taken an interest in its outcome.
The first budget draft of the short session was released on Monday night with a primary focus on funding education and state agency salaries.
On Trump’s New York criminal trial, 56% of voters believe the guilty verdict, along with the other charges against Trump, are politically motivated, while 40% disagree.
A federal Appeals Court has rejected a lawsuit from two major North Carolina media outlets and a law firm seeking access to traffic accident reports from the state Highway Patrol, Department of Public Safety, Raleigh, and two other cities. The decision announced Monday affirms a trial court ruling from US District Judge Loretta Biggs. She determined that she had no subject matter jurisdiction to consider the case.
Even a particularly destructive hurricane cannot be said to be caused by — nor offer proof of — human-caused climate change.
