ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. -- The Golden LEAF Foundation recently announced that 215 new scholarships have been awarded to support students attending four-year colleges or universities in North Carolina. This year’s scholarship recipients hail from 75 rural counties and most have lived in rural North Carolin
RALEIGH, N.C. — Artists in all disciplines are eligible to apply for grants to support their professional and artistic development through a program of the North Carolina Arts Council. North Carolina’s statewide network of local arts councils is accepting applications for the new Art
BOLIVIA, N.C. – The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved multiple agreements and a budget amendment during the regular July 6 meeting to support Pacon Manufacturing Corporation’s efforts to apply for grants that will support job creation and building reuse efforts over the ne
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) recently introduced bipartisan legislation ensuring family members of veterans who passed away due to the coronavirus receive their dependent benefits. Currently, veterans who pass away from coronavirus may have thei
According to a recent poll by Rasmussen Reports, just over half of voters continue to say they’re likely to vote against President Trump this fall -- and a sizable majority of those voters don’t seem to care who runs against him. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey f
by Julie Havlak, Carolina Journal News Service “When you’re meeting in person, I don’t think you have the ability to hit a button and end a meeting. I’m a pretty busy person, but there’s no meeting on my calendar that could ever be as important … as dealing with how we flatten the econom
by Jordan Roberts America’s convoluted, public-private health care system is filled with bad policies and inefficiencies. Government intrusion into the market has rendered it unusable and impenetrable for many. A lack of price transparency is one of the most glaring issues in America’s healt
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Commission held its regular monthly meeting by conference call on July 8, 2020 and ratified 66 hearing cases that resulted in penalties in excess of $79,200 and/or imposition of suspensions of permits for three days or more. Fines
RALEIGH, N.C. -- According to a release from the N.C. Department of Health & Human Services, North Carolina
FLETCHER, N.C. – As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty of conditions come September, the N.C. Mountain State Fair will not be held in 2020. The fair was scheduled to take place Sept. 11 through 20. “I would like nothing better than to NOT be making this announcemen
b y Kari Travis, Carolina Journal News Service RALEIGH — During a 2020 legislative session immersed in financial doubt and civil unrest, Republican lawmakers flailed against Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto power, fighting executive orders they say hurt North Carolina. It’s a political game, much
RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today launched the Community testing in High-priority And Marginalized Populations (CHAMP) Initiative to increase access to no-cost COVID-19 testing for African American, LatinX/Hispanic and American Indian communiti
