RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly will reconvene Wednesday to take up legislation that would attempt to override Charlotte’s nondiscrimination ordinance, which also addresses transgender people and restrooms, legislative leaders announced Monday night. Social conservatives and many Republican ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A default expectation for North Carolina’s fall elections is that Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper will clash in a bruising gubernatorial race. First, these politicians must win their respective March 15 ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina remains in the small club of states with top marks when it comes to borrowing. State Treasurer Janet Cowell and Gov. Pat McCrory announced Thursday the nation’s three most prominent credit-rating agencies reaffirmed their triple-A ...

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Gov. Pat McCrory is expected to make a major announcement about the Connect NC Bond campaign at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the North Carolina Association of Realtors state headquarters in Greensboro, according to a release from the governor’s office. The ...

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N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory has appointed Steve Rowlan as chairman of the N.C. Environmental Management Commission. There are 15 members on the commission, which regulates the protection of the state’s air and water resources. Rowlan is a licensed civil engineer ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Pat McCrory’s top deputies on government spending and tax collections are leaving their posts. Budget Director Lee Roberts is returning to the private sector and Revenue Secretary Lyons Gray is moving to the state Utilities ...

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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Pat McCrory boasted Wednesday about data showing overall wages are going up in North Carolina as he looks ahead to a re-election contest this year that will give him credit for the state’s post-recession economy. ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Mecklenburg County lawmakers have sent Gov. Pat McCrory a letter asking him to scuttle toll lanes on a stretch of Interstate 77 north of Charlotte. A group of 20 lawmakers and local leaders appeared at a ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A meeting Gov. Pat McCrory held with a campaign donor who was seeking to extend his company’s state contracts highlights the need for a law to further limit giving by state vendors to campaigns, a government ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — For years, North Carolina’s environmental agency usually stayed out of the public discourse, quietly carrying out the will of the General Assembly and the mandates of states and federal policymakers and the current gubernatorial administration. That ...

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