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Nelson Dollar, a Wake County Republican, lost his re-election bid in November. He will make $117,000 in his new job.
Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter
A day after it appeared that a legislative proposal to protect a fire station in southern Wake County was dead, the House revived it Thursday morning and gave it preliminary approval.
Matthew Burns, WRAL.com senior producer/politics editor
Fairview Fire Station No. 2 faced the possibility of closure, but a bill would remove it from Wake County's jurisdiction to keep it open.
State Rep. Nelson Dollar, R-Wake, said Monday that he would like health officials to investigate a Cary birthing center where three babies have died since October.
Cullen Browder, WRAL anchor/reporter
NC House leaders unveiled a tax cut proposal Tuesday that's more modest and more explicitly targeted than the Senate proposal.
Laura Leslie
State House lawmakers will vote Monday night on a new way for people to donate to cancer prevention -- on their income tax return.
The House on Wednesday quickly approved legislation calling for annual deposits into the state's so-called "rainy day fund."
Reps. Nelson Dollar, R-Wake, and David Lewis, R-Harnett, are among the incumbents who lead their challengers in primaries Tuesday night.
Mark Binker
North Carolina could earn more money by introducing new lottery games, officials say, but big changes are unlikely in the next year.
Rep. Nelson Dollar says he has been leading the conservative charge since serving in Gov. Jim Martin's administration. Challenger Mark Villee says Dollar has turned his back on his conservative credentials in favor of bloated budgets.
In a bid to keep a top lieutenant, Secretary of Public Safety Frank Perry has reorganized his department, apparently firing the wife of a chief legislative budget writer in the process.
State lawmakers say they'll have to give themselves a third deadline extension to produce a spending plan after negotiations slowed over the past week.
Wake County Republicans have chosen local businessman John M. Alexander Jr. as their nominee for state Senate District 15.
At a House conference committee meeting Monday, negotiators reported no progress on the biggest issues dividing the House and Senate budget plans.
After cancelling a planned Friday budget conference, House leaders spoke to reporters about differences between their plan and proposals by the Senate. Like Gov. Pat McCrory, they say the Senate cuts too much from other areas of government to pay for teacher raises.
House Speaker Thom Tillis talks about the budget on July 11, 2014.
House Budget Chairman Nelson Dollar, R-Wake, speaks to reporters about the budget on July 11, 2014.
House leaders will roll out a plan Thursday that calls for local health care providers to form accountable care organizations to care for North Carolina's poor and disabled residents.
State House leaders on Tuesday unveiled a $21 billion budget plan that includes an average 5 percent teacher raise paid for by a bet on lottery growth.
Laura Leslie and Cullen Browder
For the first time, 'Moral Monday' protestors' demands to meet with legislative leadership were met when Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger spoke for about an hour with a group of 15 teachers and parents who wanted lawmakers to reverse course on Republican legislative policies.
For the first time, 'Moral Monday' protestors' demands to meet with legislative leadership were met when Senate President Pro Temp Phil Berger spoke for about an hour with a group of 15 teachers and parents who wanted lawmakers to reverse course on Republican legislative policies.
A key state lawmaker said Thursday that a rosier-than-expected budget forecast for the Medicaid program could mean that there's enough in the 2014-15 budget to provide modest raises to all state workers.
At a scathing oversight meeting Thursday, lawmakers and DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos traded barbs over problems at the troubled agency.
State lawmakers decided against expansion of Medicaid in North Carolina, but they are being asked to reconsider.