UNC System leaders warned that growing athletics costs could place additional pressure on university finances and academic resources.
Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd supported advancing a federal college-sports bill that would reshape compensation and protections at North Carolina universities.
A new bipartisan Senate committee will study North Carolina property-tax policy as voters prepare to consider a constitutional limit on local revenue growth.
North Carolina will provide a $14.4 million grant from its major-events fund to support three years of WTA Finals tournaments in Charlotte.
North Carolina borrowers are slated to receive about $7.5 million in debt relief and nearly $2 million in restitution under a multistate auto-lending settlement.
President Donald Trump campaigned with Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley as North Carolina’s statewide contest against Democrat Roy Cooper enters its final weeks.
A divided North Carolina Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld the law that moved appointment power over the State Board of Elections and county election boards from Gov. Josh Stein to Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek.
Housing affordability has become one of North Carolina’s most urgent economic challenges. Rising rents, persistent inflation, and higher everyday expenses are straining household budgets across the state. In a statewide poll earlier this year, 70% of North Carolinians, across the political spectrum, described housing as unaffordable.
North Carolina boards and agencies prepare for election-rule review, education grants, a coastal regulatory decision and a State Board of Community Colleges meeting.
Three federal grants totaling approximately $7 million will support North Carolina’s 988 crisis line, mobile crisis teams and maternal substance-use treatment.
