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Flood debris piles left in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Bat Cave, North Carolina. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)When Hurricane...

Students line up as they return to school in Durham County. (File photo) It’s been two decades since state legislators bowed to tourism ind...

For the past decade, BMI has been used to deny or delay abortion care, despite researchers finding little evidence of increased adverse outc...

White House Senior Advisor to the President, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives for a meeting with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capito...

Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin continues to pursue litigation in hopes of overturning the results of the Novembe...

Signage and flowers are placed on a tree next to where ICE agents apprehended Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on March 27,...

The U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The Trump administration submitted an emergency appe...

Free food is distributed to residents in need at a weekly food bank in February 2024 in New York City. The Trump administration has eliminat...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dir...

Emergency response units search the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed on approach to Ro...

An aerial view of the Pentagon on May 12, 2021. (Photo by Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brittany A. Chase/Department of Defense)WASHINGTON — The chai...

A storm-damaged home in western North Carolina. (Photo: North Carolina Department of Commerce HUD CDBG-DR Helene recovery Action Plan)North...

Ronnie Chatterji of OpenAI, NC Treasurer Brad Briner, and Chan Park of OpenAI announce the treasurer's' office is using ChatGPT in a 12-week...

Students work in a classroom at a Wake County public school. (Photo: Galen Bacharier) North Carolina Senate leaders introduced a bill earlie...

U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (left) and Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth (right) (Hegseth photo credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images. Tillis photo via Se...

Nicholas Hemachandra listens to his father Ray talk about the needs of people with disabilities at the NC Legislative Building. (Photo: Lynn...

Rep. Keith Kidwell (Screengrab NCGA video)  The job of governing a state of 10 million people with a 60 billion dollar annual budget is big...

New teachers in North Carolina kindergarten classrooms like this one could get more support under bill proposed by Democratic state lawmaker...

An Asheville cyclist pedals toward a "WNC Strong" billboard moving past an enormous debris pile from Helene on his right. (Photo: Clayton He...

A mixed-income housing project under construction in Durham. (Photo: Greg Childress)A bill to expand so-called “missing middle housing” stat...

A sign displayed by U.S. Senate Democrats at a Washington, DC press conference on Feb. 19, 2025. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)...

Starlink was widely used in western North Carolina during the early days after Hurricane Helene. (Photo of storm debris by Getty Images) It...

Sen. Paul Newton (R-Cabarrus County) (Photo: NCGA video stream)Sen. Paul Newton, the chamber’s Republican point person on energy legislation...

The North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline) North Carolina Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday advoc...

Photo: Getty ImagesTwo identical bills introduced this week in the North Carolina House and Senate would update the language on work require...