NC State Wire

(The Center Square) – As North Carolina politics grasps seat edges and awaits the ultimate duo competing to succeed U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, there is an essence to why there is a wait.

To borrow from “A League of... Read more

(The Center Square) – More than two months after a bicameral, bipartisan request led by two North Carolina Republican congressmen, states with 19 Democratic governors and one Republican are suing the Trump administration for FEMA money.

Attorney General Jeff... Read more

(The Center Square) – The Registration Repair Project will not cause eligible voters to be removed from voter rolls, North Carolina's executive director of the State Board of Elections said Thursday.

Sam Hayes, mired in litigation from the U.S.... Read more

(The Center Square) – Polling of North Carolina voters identifying as right of center and participants in one of the last two presidential elections are pivotal in the 2026 cycle that will determine a successor to Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis.

(The Center Square) – On public college campuses in North Carolina, how much the head coach of an athletics team is paid is subject to open records laws.

For players in the new era of pay for play, those... Read more

(The Center Square) – North Carolina, first of the colonial governments to call for complete independence from Great Britain through the Halifax Resolves, has events this month in conjunction with the nation's celebration of its 250th anniversary.

Events are... Read more

(The Center Square) – Silence is speaking volumes from the highest elected Democrats from North Carolina on their party’s pivotal foreign policy resolution.

Publicly, none of the four in the U.S. House of Representatives has taken a stand nor... Read more

(The Center Square) – North Carolina’s attorney general and secretary of state on Tuesday of "Crypto Week" took aim at scams utilizing the electronic cash system surging in popularity.

It came within hours of a failed vote on Capitol... Read more

(The Center Square) – Nearly 1,000 educator jobs in North Carolina and $165 million in federal funding is threatened because the Trump administration is reviewing an estimated $6 billion in grants, says North Carolina’s attorney general.

Second-term Republican President... Read more

(The Center Square) – Transportation energy prices are only 2 cents higher than the beginning of the calendar year for the majority of North Carolinians.

The average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline statewide is $2.88, down 3... Read more

(The Center Square) – In 1990, Dan Apple was more than halfway through his undergraduate education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro when he decided to leave school for the workforce.

“I mistakenly thought that I knew... Read more

(The Center Square) – North Carolina native David Gergen, advisor to the White Houses of Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, has died. He was 83.

Born in Durham and educated at Yale (undergraduate) and Harvard (law), Gergen’s career included... Read more

(The Center Square) – Fifty-two of 104 vetoes in North Carolina’s last gubernatorial administration were overturned by the General Assembly.

Tests for first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein are on the way. He issued 14 in 20 days, and more... Read more

(The Center Square) – A Pennsylvania company boasting the reach of 1 billion patients annually and twice consecutively recognized by TIME magazine’s most sustainable companies list is paying nine states more than a quarter-billion dollars over the next years.

(The Center Square) – GMAX Industries, maker of medical disposable products in the health care industry, has chosen North Carolina for an $11.4 million production facility.

The Hauppauge, N.Y.-based manufacturer, billing itself as a minority-owned company, will be in... Read more

(The Center Square) – Improved oversight of a $1.5 billion contract involving Medicaid and North Carolina’s Health Department is one of two significant findings in a performance audit released Thursday.

The other involves patient safety vulnerabilities, according to the... Read more

(The Center Square) – Black women, says a North Carolina congresswoman, “work twice as hard to get half as far.”

And the inequity, says Rep. Alma Adams, D-N.C., is staggering.

(The Center Square) – North Carolina is the nation’s No. 1 in the 2025 America’s Top States for Business, CNBC said Thursday morning.

In a presentation from the Battleship North Carolina in Wilmington, network anchor Scott Cohn said the... Read more

(The Center Square) – Saying it created “more opportunity for dark money in our politics,” North Carolina first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein on Wednesday vetoed legislation tied to decisions on the First Amendment, transparency and privacy in donations to nonprofits.

(The Center Square) – In a vote of support for active military and veterans along with supply chain infrastructure, nine proposals on the desk of first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein were signed into law on Wednesday.

Three others were... Read more