(The Center Square) – North Carolinians still needing hotel rooms paid for by FEMA as part of recovery from Hurricane Helene will get a 21-day notice rather than seven when they become no longer eligible for the program.
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(The Center Square) – More than 2,700 North Carolina individuals and families using hotels have extended stays until Memorial Day in the FEMA Transitional Sheltering Assistance Program that is part of recovery from Hurricane Helene.
A Sunday letter from... Read more
(The Center Square) – Sports wagering revenue to North Carolina’s tax coffers in December was the lowest of 10 months since legalization though still enough to eclipse $105 million.
Estimated tax proceeds were $6,429,218, a 54.2% decline from November... Read more
(The Center Square) – State Rep. Joe John, Democrat from Wake County, has penned a letter of resignation to the North Carolina House of Representatives.
“After a courageous and arduous battle with cancer,” John writes in the Sunday letter,... Read more
(The Center Square) – Amid Inauguration Day festivities to the north, North Carolinians on Monday were paying averages of $3.50 for a gallon of milk, $7.70 for a pound of beef round and $2.88 for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline.
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(The Center Square) – His wife’s release came after 51 days. Many in North Carolina have, and now especially with another ceasefire, anxiously await the release of Chapel Hill native Keith Siegel.
He’s one of seven American hostages, at... Read more
(The Center Square) – Federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is in a Senate proposal from Republicans Thom Tillis and Ted Budd.
The proposal mirrors a version in the House of Representatives brought by Rep. David... Read more
(The Center Square) – Additional time through the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene has been requested of FEMA and its Temporary Sheltering Assistance Program.
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein penned a letter to outgoing Administrator Deanne Criswell on Thursday.
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(The Center Square) – Favorability for businesses making choices and observers with rankings to choose North Carolina remains strong.
Site Selection magazine, headquartered in Georgia, picked North Carolina third behind Texas and Georgia in the annual survey of Top... Read more
(The Center Square) – North Carolina’s freshman congressman, a Green Beret veteran, and Texas’ third-term junior senator have introduced legislation reversing Biden administration policies in the military tied to the COVID-19 vaccine.
U.S. Rep. Pat Harrigan’s AMERICANS... Read more
(The Center Square) – North Carolina and Tennessee were cleared this week for $352.6 million in Emergency Relief funds in the “quick release” process by the Federal Highway Administration from within the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Money is being... Read more
(The Center Square) – Withdrawal of an environmental rule by NOAA with an estimated economic impact of $46.2 million along the Eastern Seaboard from Florida to Maine has drawn bipartisan praise from those opposed.
The North Atlantic Right Whale... Read more
(The Center Square) – Federal legislation passing the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday has mirror language to North Carolina’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act that became law on Aug. 16, 2023.
Party-line votes also reflected the times. Two... Read more
(The Center Square) – From a $700 million budget hole five years ago to staying “within the lanes of its budget while fulfilling transportation duties,” North Carolina’s Department of Transportation received a sterling audit from the new state treasurer.
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(The Center Square) – Six applications for charter schools opening in the fall of 2026 gained approval, and one renewal for this fall was declined on Monday by the North Carolina Charter School Review Commission.
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(The Center Square) – Republican U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina will serve as chairwoman of the House of Representatives' Committee on Rules for the 119th Congress.
Foxx, of the 5th Congressional District in the northwestern part of... Read more
(The Center Square) – FEMA’s Transitional Sheltering Assistance hotel stays were extended Monday evening, answering the pleas of western North Carolinians.
In a social media post from FEMA's Region 4 at 8:12 p.m., “#NC: FEMA is extending the Transitional... Read more
(The Center Square) – A joint bid for U.S. Steel from two domestic rivals has the potential support of Gov. Josh Shapiro.
In a statement to The Center Square on Monday, the governor’s office said Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves... Read more
(The Center Square) – Two North Carolina Republicans are among the 44 cosponsors of Sen. John Cornyn’s proposal for federal concealed-carry reciprocity among the states.
North Carolina Sen. Tillis, Texas Sens. Cornyn and Ted Cruz and Senate Judiciary Committee... Read more
(The Center Square) – Calling it “egregious assaults on voting rights” and “sinister and shameful,” Democrats alongside North Carolina’s unsettled election battle lashed out at Republicans and Judge Jefferson Griffin on Monday afternoon.
Allison Riggs, the Democrat appointed to... Read more
