State Treasurer Dale Folwell spoke out for patient protections at a public forum on the Medical Debt De-Weaponization Act in Elizabeth City on Monday. Medical debt is crippling North Carolinians’ upward mobility and threatening to create generational poverty. One in...
North Carolina’s in-person early voting period begins tomorrow and continues until 3pm Saturday, November 5th. In total, 359 early voting sites will be open across the state, up 17% from the 307 sites for the 2018 midterm election.
A toddler fatally shot himself while playing with a handgun in his father’s pickup truck, the Johnston County Sheriff’s office said. Deputies responded to West Watson Road in Benson around 6pm Sunday and found Warren Bennett Oser, 2, near a vehicle with a...
A large swarm of jellyfish washed up along the northern edge of Ocracoke Island, part of the Outer Banks. The sudden influx of these squishy, stinger-less blobs coincides with the presence of red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), a species of saltwater fish that’s...
United States Attorney Sandra J. Hairston announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $177,090 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the Middle District of North Carolina. Funding will support comprehensive efforts to address the...
The NC Achieving a Better Life Experience Program (ABLE) will be joined by Ali Ingersoll, Ms. Wheelchair America 2023, at the North Carolina State Fair’s second-annual AccessABILITY Day on Sunday, Oct. 16. NC ABLE and Ms. Ingersoll will be located outside Dorton...