Flames, firefighters, and emergency decrees are blanketing Western North Carolina as state and local officials work to maintain multiple large wildfires.
Since 2013, the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly (NCGA) has been directing taxpayer money to fund crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). CPCs, which work to dissuade pregnant people from terminating their pregnancies, are notorious for lying to women about the safety and potential risks of abortion.
A tiny but extremely vocal minority has fueled the manufactured outrage against educators, students and public education in the last few years. The peddling of misinformation and extremist rhetoric has helped bolster changes in the classrooms and the makeup of school boards across the country.
A three-judge panel granted Gov. Roy Cooper a partial victory over Republican legislators earlier this month, WRAL reported.
A new report by The Public School Forum of North Carolina highlights the ongoing challenges with teacher recruitment and retention across the state.
At the start of this month, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper proclaimed November as American Indian Heritage Month in honor of our nation’s first inhabitants.
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls has been spending extra time in court recently as she’s in the middle of a lawsuit against the NC Judicial Standards Commission (NCJSC) that is investigating her for comments she made about biases at the high court.
Medicaid expansion is expected to roll out next month, bringing health care coverage to more than 600,000 eligible North Carolinians. As the Dec. 1 launch date comes closer, mental health services, doctors, and nurses are also expected to see big changes.
Last week, the State Board of Education passed new policies that are set to go into effect for the upcoming school year. Under the new state budget, school districts are required to offer a sequence of courses that would allow high school students to graduate in three years instead of the traditional four years.
Whether you’re a fan of the switch from daylight-saving time back to standard time or not, we still “fall back” and then “spring forward” every year in most of the United States – and a new poll shows that North Carolinians aren’t too crazy about the time change, The News & Observer reported.