After meeting once every two months to talk about the opioid crisis, housing crisis and other behavioral health issues in Macon County, on Aug.
After a month and a half, the N.C. General Assembly reconvened the week of Aug. 14 not for a budget vote, but for veto override and to consider a new election bill.
Since early July, Franklin’s two state legislators have been awaiting word to return to Raleigh and the N.C. General Assembly to vote on the biennium state budget.
While multiple broadband projects are either queued up or underway in south Macon County and one in Nantahala, many unserved areas of the county are waiting on a company that won’t be in Macon unti
A book aiming to educate teens on relationships and safe sex, among other subjects, was moved to the adult section of the Hudson Library following a vote by the Fontana Regional Library board.
Elective abortion access is now more restricted in North Carolina after the General Assembly passed a new law over the governor’s veto last week.
Renewed efforts at the state level to give local school boards more flexibility in setting their calendars have passed the N.C.
Titled “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” North Carolina SB 631 would require student athletes to participate in the sport of their biological sex or on co-ed teams, with the State Board of Educatio
After years of waiting, expansion of Medicaid to roughly 600,000 North Carolinians is now state law but has a caveat before it goes into full effect.