RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As House and Senate Republicans keep working in Raleigh to merge their competing spending plans into one, their delays in passing a two-year state budget will cost more than $1 million originating from taxpayers. The tab comes largely ...

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RALEIGH — Democrats still trying to figure out their comeback in North Carolina politics found more obstacles in 2014. Sen. Kay Hagan narrowly lost to Republican Thom Tillis in what became a GOP year nationwide. Republicans won another U.S. House seat and will ...

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RALEIGH — North Carolina legislators have just a couple more questions to answer if they want to wrap up this year’s primary work session that started in May. The state House and Senate scheduled Friday morning floor meetings to take up a couple ...

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RALEIGH — Some members of a North Carolina environmental commission say they’re upset that rules they’d worked on for years to protect streams have been rewritten in private by state regulators. Environmental Management Commission Chairman Benne Hutson says that can’t happen again. At ...

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RALEIGH — North Carolina House members and film industry leaders argue anything short of a one-year extension on current tax credits for movie and TV production expenses will mean lost jobs in the state. Wilmington-area lawmakers and film executives held a Legislative Building ...

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ARDEN — Two North Carolina governors and dozens of legislators from both parties joined several hundred mourners Tuesday to pay their last respects to veteran General Assembly member Martin Nesbitt. Gov. Pat McCrory and former Gov. Beverly Perdue also attended the funeral at ...

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JAMESTOWN — Gov. Pat McCrory and top legislative leaders say they’ll commit about $200 million over the next two years to raise pay for starting teachers from nearly $31,000 a year to $35,000 to keep educators from leaving classrooms. The agreement ...

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RALEIGH — The 2014 elections will go on as planned after North Carolina’s highest court refused to delay them while the justices consider the legality of the most recent version of election districts. The state Supreme Court announced Friday its denial of a ...

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