NC Reports 22% Increase In Overdose Deaths
RALEIGH - With overdose deaths in 2021 increasing 22%, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services continues to extend mobile crisis care,...
You Decide: Is The Labor Market Returning To Normal?
By Mike Walden
After inflation, the labor market shortage has probably been the top story of the past two years. Many businesses have struggled...
NCDHHS Updates Guidance For K-12 Schools, Instructs Schools To Open For In-Person Instruction
Continued research shows mitigation measures allow safe in-person learning, low transmission among students and teachersRALEIGH - K-12 schools are expected to open for in-person...
NCDOT Earns Grant to Expand Access To On-Demand Transit In Johnston County
RALEIGH – State transportation officials say a new federal grant award of $10.4 million will help expand on-demand transit services for up to 11...
Temporary Rule To Address Shortage Of Ductwork Signed Into Law
RALEIGH – On March 17, Governor Roy Cooper signed House Bill 243, “Budget Technical Corrections,” into law. The law allows the N.C. Building Code...
Second Wake County Golf Cart Business Owner Pleads Guilty To State Tax Charges
RALEIGH – Wake County businessman Sherief Adel Mansour, 48, of Moncure, pleaded guilty to two counts of Embezzlement of State Property in Wake County...
Democratic Litigator: After Shift In Georgia, N.C. Next To Go Blue
By David Bass
Carolina Journal News Service
RALEIGH — A Democratic litigator predicted North Carolina will be among a handful of states to turn blue in upcoming elections...
Conservatives Push To Increase Early Voting
By Katherine Zehnder Carolina Journal
"It is a losing game for conservatives to believe their vote doesn't count and they're going to...
‘Booze It & Lose It’ Campaign Upgrades To Be Implemented Statewide
RALEIGH – The N.C. Governor’s Highway Safety Program and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced today the success of a pilot project...
Updated Legislative Electoral Maps Pass General Assembly
By Donna King Carolina Journal
The N.C. House and Senate gave final approval to redrawn or remedial legislative electoral maps Thursday, after last-minute adjustments delayed the...
