RALEIGH - North Carolina legislative leaders filed new briefs defending laws that limit the governor’s choices for appellate court vacancies and redistribute appointment authority over state boards and commissions.
RALEIGH - North Carolina lawmakers approved a temporary suspension of the state motor-fuel tax Wednesday, sending the measure to Gov. Josh Stein after a one-day extra session.
RALEIGH - North Carolina legislative leaders have called the General Assembly into an extra session Wednesday to consider state tax relief on gasoline and diesel fuel.
Raleigh, N.C. - General Assembly Heeds President Trump's Call to Thwart Blue State Attempts to Take Congress. Today, legislative leaders agreed to hold votes during the previously scheduled October legislative session to block the efforts of blue state Democrats to take control of Congress from Republicans. The General Assembly anticipates returning to Raleigh next week to consider a new Congressional map.
Raleigh, NC — Today, North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall responded to Governor Stein’s veto of S266, the "Power Bill Reduction Act."
North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall earned at least two rounds of bipartisan applause at the start of this year’s legislative session. One was for assuming his new leadership post. The other was for releasing a House calendar for the next six months, complete with specific deadlines and a pledge to “give you some certainty in your schedule.”
RALEIGH — Last month, North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall tapped Rep. John Torbett (R-Gaston) and Rep. Keith Kidwell (R-Beaufort) to lead a new select committee on government efficiency.
Eighteen black and Latino plaintiffs working with Democratic lawyer Marc Elias’ law firm have filed a federal lawsuit to block North Carolina’s new congressional map. They took their case to court on the same afternoon that candidate filing began for the state’s 2024 elections.
More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic brought North Carolina to a screeching halt, Gov. Roy Cooper shows no sign of relinquishing the sweeping and open-ended emergency powers he has claimed under state law.
On March 10, 2020 Governor Roy Cooper declared a State of Emergency for North Carolina due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and on March 17, 2020, he closed schools, restaurants, and bars for in-person dining. The NCHSAA also suspended school sports.
Today marks an entire year since Governor Roy Cooper unilaterally put the citizens of North Carolina under a state-wide emergency order due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
by Lindsay Marchello, Carolina Journal News Service Fewer than six weeks from the 2020 general election, two of the five members of the State Board of Elections walked off the job. Republicans are disgusted. They say they were misled by information from the board. Its staff. State Attorney G
