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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper rallied an enthusiastic crowd of Democrats for Kamala Harris on Thursday. He also addressed speculation he could be picked as her running mate.

Now that Gov. Roy Cooper has checked expanding Medicaid off his gubernatorial to-do list, he has shifted his health care focus to the needs of North Carolina’s most vulnerable — the young, the old and the disabled — in his proposed spending plan for the coming fiscal year.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited Gaston County Thursday to highlight the Biden administration's efforts to rebuild U.S. manufacturing, shift to climate-friendly energy and bring jobs to underserved and rural areas.

It’s time for a fact-check of North Carolina politics. And this week we are looking at an ad attacking Gov. Roy Cooper.

Gov. Roy Cooper says he's disappointed with the federal government's decision to exclude two sites off North Carolina from a new round of offshore wind leasing areas.

Congress gave the $6.6 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline the go-ahead last month to complete construction as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling. But that hasn't ended the fight over the 304-mile pipeline that would carry fracked gas from West Virginia to Virginia — and by extension, possibly into central North Carolina.

Republican leaders at the North Carolina General Assembly said this week that they'll take a break until Aug. 7. That means no votes on bills, no overrides of vetoes by Gov. Roy Cooper, and no vote on a $30 billion state budget for the fiscal year that began three weeks ago. To find out what's going on in Raleigh, WFAE's David Boraks talked with Colin Campbell, the Capitol bureau chief at WUNC.

Atom Power, which makes electric vehicle charging equipment, is planning a $4.2 million expansion of its Huntersville headquarters that will create 205 jobs.

Gov. Roy Cooper urged business leaders at a conference in Raleigh Wednesday to help resist legislative efforts to slow the state's clean energy efforts.

North Carolina transportation officials have sent the governor a Clean Transportation Plan for cutting carbon emissions from transportation to meet the state's climate goals.