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LEAD NC recruits candidates to run for office. Its executive director and other staff have left.

Some of North Carolina’s top leaders in business, politics, education and philanthropy gathered in Raleigh on Monday to push for more focus on creating a skilled labor force. They said that includes providing more young adults with credentials aligned with employer needs.

North Carolina’s Supreme Court returned to the state’s recent divisive round of redistricting on Tuesday, as justices heard further challenges to General Assembly and congressional district lines getting used for next month’s elections.

North Carolina will release its A-to-F school letter grades Wednesday – and they’ll be calculated the same way they were last year. That’s despite…

The General Assembly's new state budget just landed on Governor Cooper's desk, with a resounding thud.The plan received final approval Thursday.Now, the…

The leaders of North Carolina's House of Representatives had hoped to unveil their state budget sometime this week. But hashing out their spending plan is…

Tuesday afternoon the lead budget writers for North Carolina's Senate gave us the budgetary equivalent of a movie trailer. Here's Senate Pro-Tem Phil…

Republican leaders of the North Carolina Senate have released the highlights of their proposed state budget. The $22.9 billion plan represents a 2.5…

On Wednesday the North Carolina Senate passed a tax cut bill with a catchy name. This vote was never in doubt. The bill passed the House Tuesday in a…

The North Carolina House of Representatives followed the Senate's lead Thursday afternoon, voting 70-48 to repeal and replace the controversial House Bill…