North Carolina Government News

Health officials in North Carolina say two pregnant women were among five people who died of pandemic H1N1 flu or similar symptoms in one week.

That old adage "No rest for the weary" could have been coined with Mark and Barbara Van Art in mind.

A legislative watchdog agency says North Carolina needs to better monitor how hundreds of millions of dollars sent annually to nonprofit groups is spent.

Sunday, Nov. 1, kicked off Nonprofit Awareness Month in communities across North Carolina.

North Carolina has launched a Web site to help the state's bars, restaurants and hotels to kick the smoking habit for good.

School choice advocates have brought a lawsuit in North Carolina seeking funding equity in public education.

The Majority Leader of the North Carolina Senate, Tony Rand, has announced his resignation from the state legislature, according to the News & Observer.

North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan has withdrawn her support for a possible lifetime federal appointment for a state judge who ruled in favor of a company that includes Hagan's husband.

A North Carolina home daycare is closed while authorities investigate the death of an infant.

Governor Bev Perdue has appointed Senator Tony Rand to head the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission.

The White House has nominated two North Carolina judges to fill seats on the nation's most conservative federal appeals court.

A North Carolina congressman dashing to catch a plane dumped his sport utility vehicle at the end of a row of properly parked cars at Charlotte's airport.

The latest round of political corruption charges - this time accompanied with a hefty round of fines - circling former Gov.

The House and Senate are getting back to work on whether they can agree to an overhaul of North Carolina's tax structure next year.

A Republican congresswoman said Monday that people have more to fear from Democratic health care legislation than from terrorists.

Crews are hoping they can begin drilling rocks at the top of a massive rock slide on Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee state line after rain delayed their progress over the weekend.

Gov. Bev Perdue announced today the launch of www.SmokeFree.NC.gov, a website to help implement North Carolinaa s new law that requires restaurants, bars and lodging establishments that serve food and drink to go smoke-free as of January 2, 2010.

The man behind the quiet data-crunching enterprise is Richard Newell, a Duke University economist and energy enthusiast.

Sort of like the proverbial picture worth a thousand words, a recent update on North Carolina's unemployment figures painted an image worth millions of dollars - quite a few millions.

More North Carolinians want to see a new senator elected in 2010 than would like to see Sen.