(The Center Square) – A little known federal tax credit that existed since Ronald Reagan was president has a long way toward creating more affordable housing in North Carolina, the state director told The Center Square.
The Low-Income Housing... Read more
(The Center Square) – Natron Energy, a California company planning a $1.4 billion plant in rural North Carolina, says on its company website operations ceased Wednesday.
Published reports in late July said the Santa Clara-headquartered company needed cash. To... Read more
(The Center Square) – Ending a federal lawsuit has been agreed to in a joint filing by the U.S. Department of Justice and the State Board of Elections in North Carolina.
Judge Richard Myers, chief judge for the U.S.... Read more
(The Center Square) – The North Carolina State Board of Education has voted to review the internal financial controls of the Winston Salem-Forsyth County School system after a recent state auditor’s report uncovered mismanagement.
A school board resolution approved... Read more
(The Center Square) – Ryan Routh, North Carolinian and resident of Hawaii charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump during the last campaign season, begins his defense Monday in a Florida federal courtroom.
Routh is defending himself, with court-appointed... Read more
(The Center Square) – State Sen. Bobby Hanig will enter the Republican primary for North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, hoping to defeat Rocky Mount Mayor Sandy Roberson and eventually second-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Don Davis.
Filing with the State... Read more
(The Center Square) – Recovery from hurricanes, whether Helene in North Carolina last fall or Katrina in Louisiana two decades ago, should have survivors first, says a Tarheel State congressman.
The FEMA Act of 2025, he believes, does just... Read more
(The Center Square) – North Carolina public school students did better on 12 of 15 math and reading standardized tests taken at the end of the school year last spring, according to new data presented to the State Board of Education on Wednesday.
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(The Center Square) – North Carolina’s state school superintendent is touting newly released test scores from last spring as evidence that with hard work, educators can turn student performance around quickly.
“One of the things that was highlighted is... Read more
(The Center Square) – With a $1.4 billion jackpot, North Carolinians were lining up again Wednesday at their favorite shopping spots.
All eyes, as they are across the nation, are on the Powerball lottery game and the sixth largest... Read more
(The Center Square) – Governance, research, development, partnership and training within state government in connection to artificial intelligence is within first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s AI Accelerator.
The Department of Information Technology and the North Carolina AI Leadership Council... Read more
(The Center Square) – Ryan Routh will have court-appointed lawyers nearby as he represents himself in a Florida court against charges related to attempting to assassinate Donald Trump.
Jury selection starts Monday in the U.S. District Court for the... Read more
(The Center Square) – Voter registration gains by the bloc of those unaffiliated in North Carolina is more than six times greater than both the Republican and Democratic parties for the traditional 15 weeks of summer.
In Saturday’s update... Read more
(The Center Square) – Eggs by 23 cents, milk by 11 cents and bread by 7 cents on averages are up from a month ago in the capital city of North Carolina.
Average prices on household staples have neither... Read more
(The Center Square) – Former state Sen. Louis Pate Jr. died Friday at his Mount Olive home. He was 88.
Veteran of the U.S. Air Force with time at Seymour Johnson, he was a building supply company owner with... Read more
(The Center Square) – Funding by AmeriCorps, annual recipient of $1 billion in taxpayer dollars and without a clean audit since at least fiscal 2016, is releasing previously withheld funds for jobs and grants helping western North Carolina recover from Hurricane Helene.
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(The Center Square) – The taxpayers of North Carolina suddenly have $170 million more in the state coffers than they realized.
The money, “unspent and unallocated,” was discovered in a review by the first-term Republican Treasurer Brad Briner.
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(The Center Square) – Apologetic for her absence and prayerful for what lies ahead, Mecklenburg County Republican Rep. Tricia Cotham said Thursday she will be away from the North Carolina General Assembly indefinitely.
Vice chairwoman of the Committee on... Read more
(The Center Square) – Local tax receipts grew 4.3% to $1.3 billion through 2024 tourism in North Carolina, with 71 of 100 counties having increased visitor spending, the state Commerce Department said Wednesday.
The state previously announced a record... Read more
(The Center Square) – County boards of elections in North Carolina on Wednesday were given an option for whether to have Sunday voting during the early in-person period leading up to Election Day.
The ballots across the state this... Read more
