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Raleigh, N.C. — Legislation calling for sweeping changes in several key state regulatory boards and commissions has revealed divisions between House and Senate Republicans.
A House committee approved substantive changes to the Senate bill, and Sen. Tom Apodaca, R-Henderson, stormed out of the meeting.
Meanwhile, the Senate made quick work of bills to speed the permitting for natural gas wells in North Carolina and to increase penalties for groups that protest at military funerals.
President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an…
The N.C. Senate holds its final vote on its $20.6 billion state budget proposal for 2013-14.
Gov. Pat McCrory and Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane on Thursday asked the General Assembly to set the effective date of the Dorothea…
Gov. Pat McCrory and Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane discuss the efforts of the North Carolina General Assembly to rewrite legislation…
Senators gave tentative approval Wednesday to a $20.6 billion budget that Republican leaders say will help right North Carolina…
The House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon to rewrite Senate-passed legislation in an attempt to resolve the…
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