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RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Transportation is eliminating 81 positions to comply with last year’s state budget law that required it outsource more work to the private sector. DOT said Tuesday that 70 filled and 11 recently vacated positions ...

RALEIGH — The “Moral Monday” protests at the North Carolina legislature are being renewed exactly two years after the first arrests of those opposed to Republican state government policies. The state NAACP is leading a series of events starting Wednesday morning ...

RALEIGH — The legislature’s first crack at its annual “regulatory reform” bill that moved forward Monday includes provisions environmental groups worry could discourage natural pollution protections along streams and rivers. The measure that cleared the House Regulatory Reform Committee would ...

RALEIGH — Raleigh officials have approved plans to buy 300 acres near downtown that formerly housed a state mental hospital for about $52 million. Raleigh’s city council on Friday approved the contract for the Dorothea Dix hospital property negotiated with ...

BUXTON — Dare County officials say the encroaching tide has damaged six houses on the ocean in Buxton so badly that they’re now considered unsafe structures. County Planning Director Donna Creef says problems include septic tanks and pilings. She says ...

RALEIGH — Leading North Carolina business lobbying groups are pushing to scale back a 1971 state law that requires government agencies to evaluate the potential results on the environment of spending public dollars or disturbing public lands. Republican legislation poised for ...

RALEIGH – More businesses in North Carolina would be required to use the E-Verify system to check the immigration status of workers they hired in legislation clearing one General Assembly chamber. The bill passed 80-39 Thursday in the House would lower ...

RALEIGH — A federal judge ruled this week that boats could not navigate North Carolina’s second-largest river system at the time of American independence, a decision that helps Alcoa Inc. as it tries to prove it owns the riverbed on which ...

RALEIGH — North Carolina electric companies must keep planning to generate more power through alternative sources and other measures after an effort to freeze those requirements failed to advance Wednesday through a House committee. The House Public Utilities Committee narrowly defeated ...

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s jobless rate has inched up from the prior two months, according to figures released Tuesday. The North Carolina Department of Commerce said the state’s unemployment rate was 5.4 percent in March. The rates for February and January were ...