RALEIGH — North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory says moving closer to drilling offshore of the Carolinas is a step in the right direction. The Obama administration on Tuesday included tracts off the coast in a draft proposal of areas that ...

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RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory and other full-time elected state officials would be banned from earning extra income from other jobs under a bill Democrats at the North Carolina legislature announced Wednesday. The upcoming legislation also would require more detail in the financial ...

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RALEIGH — Advocacy groups filed ethics complaints Monday against North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford of South Carolina over six-figure stock payouts they received while in office from an online mortgage broker. The complaints followed an Associated Press report last month ...

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK — Gov. Pat McCrory says the legislature needs to act early this year to refresh North Carolina’s economic incentives offerings because he lacks tools needed when pitching North Carolina to company executives. McCrory told a new year’s business economic forum Monday he ...

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RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory has named a veteran manager at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources as the agency’s next top leader once the current secretary shifts to head the Department of Commerce in January. On Tuesday, McCrory ...

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RALEIGH – Gov. Pat McCrory and North Carolina legislators praised each other for the new method they approved last year to fund transportation projects they say is based not on who you know but more on reducing gridlock and creating jobs. The result, ...

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RALEIGH — Political analysts from both parties said they had concerns Wednesday about whether Gov. Pat McCrory had been forthcoming about payments of more than $185,000 in cash and stock that he accepted from a Charlotte mortgage broker after he ...

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RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory has named a well-known lobbyist who previously worked for U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms as a new deputy chief of staff. Jimmy Broughton of Winston-Salem served as Helms’ chief of staff from 1994 until the Republican ...

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RALEIGH — The head of North Carolina’s key business-recruiting agency is stepping down to be replaced by the environment agency head, Gov. Pat McCrory said Tuesday. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker is leaving at the end of this month and being succeeded by John ...

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RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory and two of his predecessors sued North Carolina’s top legislators Thursday over the makeup of the state’s new Coal Ash Management Commission and other panels approved this year by the General Assembly. McCrory and former Govs. Jim Hunt ...

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