Governor Roy Cooper joined US Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in Raleigh for the first groundbreaking of the S-Line Project, the major infrastructure project that will revitalize the Southeast Corridor of passenger rail, and a visit to the Blue Ridge Road construction site, a project that will improve traffic flow, access, and efficiency along the Raleigh Beltline.
RALEIGH: North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and the NC Department of Health and Human Services announced new actions leveraging the state’s Medicaid program that will encourage hospitals to relieve a potential $4 billion in existing medical debt for approximately two million low and middle-income North Carolinians and ease the burden of medical debt in the future.
Republicans in the North Carolina Senate overrode three of Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes. The General Assembly has successfully overridden all 22 of Gov. Cooper's vetoes this biennium.
Republicans in the North Carolina Senate voted to put one constitutional amendment on 2024 general election ballots, and passed two additional constitutional amendments for consideration.
As temperatures climb into the high 90s this summer, the N.C. Department of Adult Correction has taken measures to ensure the safety of people incarcerated in state prisons and the staff that supervise them.
In a disappointing turn of events, the Senate Republican supermajority has once again demonstrated its disregard for the urgent issues facing North Carolinians.
The state’s seasonally adjusted May 2024 unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, increasing 0.1 of a percentage point from April’s revised rate. The national rate increased 0.1 of a percentage point to 4.0 percent.
