North Carolina Government News

North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue is sounding an alarm about early childhood education funding by spending time this week with young schoolchildren.

Some state workers and contractors at agencies designed to help people find jobs are now accused of making money off those people and stealing from the state.

NC DOT officials have proposed placing tolls on interstate 95 to fund widening projects and road improvements in the next seven years.

It's no secret that the American economy has suffered a great financial downturn and is currently spinning itself irritably into what some critics will dispute as being the "Great Recession of the 2000's." This argument carries zero substance in my perspective.

It's no secret that the American economy has suffered a great financial downturn and is currently spinning itself irritably into what some critics will dispute as being the "Great Recession of the 2000's." This argument carries zero substance in my perspective.

President Barack Obama called on Congress Monday to create an $8 billion fund to train community college students for high-growth industries, giving a financial incentive to schools whose graduates are getting jobs.

U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan made a stop Monday in Concord to talk with job-seekers and employers at the Hiring Our Heroes Job Fair.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is going overtime as it decides whether to stick with federal standards that could mean $12 million in rebates for more than 58,000 North Carolina residents who buy their own health insurance.

Thanks to a new law, the North Carolina election season that begins today with candidate filing could drag into the middle of summer vacation season.

Experts say the sour economy and increased recycling efforts are behind a drop in the amount of garbage North Carolinians throw away.

State Sen. Eric Mansfield of Fayetteville says he's running for lieutenant governor, saying he believes bickering in the Legislature has prevented North Carolina from moving forward.

Three years ago, 98 Democrats arrived at the North Carolina General Assembly to begin yet another session in the majority.

North Carolina's political landscape changed in 2011, when Republicans took over control of the House & Senate in Raleigh for the first time in 140 years.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation is hosting a series of workshops around the state to encourage girls in school to think about careers as engineers.

Anne K. Shields and Howard Shields talk with Linda Garrou during a sneak peek for donors and friends of SECCA Thursday, April 8, 2010.

Former Sen. R.C. Soles is recovering after undergoing heart bypass surgery this morning at New Hanover Regional Medical Center.

Under a new North Carolina law, state health officials have begun collecting data on infections that patients get while in the hospital, and plan to begin making it public this fall.

High-tech workers across the country could see smaller paychecks under an industry-led campaign to revise labor laws to further limit overtime benefits.

A free N.C. Sex Offender Registry application developed by the state Department of Justice for iPhones, iPads and iPod touches is now available for download on iTunes or at ncdoj.gov. The new app allows users to search for registered North Carolina sex offenders by GPS location or street address from wherever they are.

In the earliest decades of the 20th century, progressives in America were captivated by eugenics, a scientific approach to human reproduction aimed at using sterilization and other methods to weed out the mentally incompetent, the economically challenged, and the racially inferior -- inferior according to those who were making the rules at the ... (more)