The overall goal of the HEART program is to limit potentially dangerous interactions with police, as well as connect Durham residents to mental health resources and follow-up care.
With state Republicans pushing forth abortion bans, medical professionals across the board have sounded the alarm surrounding the impact of erasing reproductive health care access.
At 2.5%, North Carolina already has the lowest corporate income tax rate of the 44 states that have such a tax, according to the Tax Foundation.
An outside far-right group, Pender County Concerned Citizens, asked for 40 books to be removed from Pender County schools. In the last week alone, seven books were pulled from four schools in the county.
“If you have a bad day at work, do you storm into your boss’s office and demand a raise? This is what Duke is doing,” said the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters’ Dan Crawford.
The legislation, ironically titled the “Equality in Education” bill, would censor how NC educators teach their students about 13 specific concepts and would silence Black, brown, and LGBTQ+ voices and stories.
Less than 48 hours after the horrific Nashville school shooting that claimed the lives of six people, including three elementary school students, North Carolina Republican
The increase would be the first in more than a decade, and the governor’s proposal added a $91 million change in how the state’s unemployment system is financed that’s meant to boost job training programs.
Retired Winston-Salem Fire Sergeant Robert Grier was one of eight African-Americans to integrate the Winston-Salem Fire Department in 1951. Happy birthday, Sgt. Grier!
Following the success of the pandemic-era federal policy that expanded free school meals, state Democrats introduced bills in the House and Senate that would have established permanent universal free school meals.