The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against a North Carolina school board after it shut down a student-led trivia game about prominent LGBTQ+ figures, claiming the game was “indecent.” The suit, filed Wednesday on behalf of one of the student organizers in the U.

Former Gov. Roy Cooper warned about potential cuts to programs like Medicaid after House Republicans passed a budget blueprint that calls for $2 trillion in spending cuts. What’s in the bill.

Tillis won his previous two Senate races in battleground North Carolina by less than 2 percentage points. Tillis formally launched his 2026 re-election campaign last year. Schwart

State lawmakers are pushing for a whole new approach to disaster recovery in North Carolina — as they also seek accountability for previous hurricane recovery efforts they see as failures. Tuesday will see the first committee hearing for a bill to pay millions of dollars more for years-old recovery projects that are still lingering,

Driving the news: North Carolina Amateur Sports, a Durham-based nonprofit, is awarding grants of up to $20,000 per county to local government agencies and nonprofits to help purchase youth sports equipment or upgrade public facilities used by youth sports. The deadline to apply is April 1.

Hundreds of millions of dollars could soon be in the hands of a group the General Assembly says has failed to help victims of Hurricanes in North Carolina nearly a decade ago.

A teenager wailed in court and called out for his mother after he was denied bail and charged with murder as an adult under a new law in North Carolina. Sean Simpson, 16, is accused of fatally shooting Zaquavious Dawkins,

New House Speaker Destin Hall said he backs the weakening of the state’s construction regulations to date, even as constituents tell WBTV changes are needed to make communities and neighborhoods safer.

North Carolina state Senate Republicans advanced a disaster recovery measure Tuesday to direct $533 million in additional spending to meet still-pressing needs from Hurricane Helene’s historic flooding and destruction last fall,

Five months after Hurricane Helene severed a critical Appalachian freight corridor, a 12-mile stretch of Interstate 40 through North Carolina’s Pigeon River Gorge reopened Saturday.

Roy Cooper, a Democrat ... “Somebody has got to answer to the people of North Carolina,” bill sponsor Rep. Brenden Jones, R-Columbus, said in an interview ahead of Tuesday's hearing.