N.C. Court of Appeals overturns decision granting voting rights for felons
More than 55,000 North Carolina residents were granted the right to vote. Until they weren’t.
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More than 55,000 North Carolina residents were granted the right to vote. Until they weren’t.
Last Friday, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would prohibit critical race theory from being taught in public schools.
Minors under the age of 16 are no longer allowed to marry in North Carolina under a new law signed by Gov. Roy Cooper on Aug. 26.
Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law last week a bill that will expand opportunities for people to have felonies expunged from their records.
Despite an over four-month delay in the release of 2020 census data, North Carolina legislators are now tasked with redrawing the state's political districts by mid-December.
A new bipartisan criminal justice reform bill was signed into law by Gov. Roy Cooper on Sept. 2, but the ACLU of North Carolina said it falls short of addressing systemic racism at the base of the criminal justice system.
Carrboro restaurant Pizzeria Mercato has become one of the first restaurants in the area to require proof of vaccination for dine-in customers — an initiative Gov. Roy Cooper said he supports.
Chapel Hill’s population grew by almost 5,000 over the past decade, the result of a boom in racial and ethnic diversity. The increase has contributed to the rapid growth in the Research Triangle that is driving North Carolina’s rise in population.
Hundreds of community members gathered in downtown Raleigh last week to protest the Israeli military's airstrikes and artillery fire in Gaza.
Effective immediately, masks are no longer required in most settings, and mass gathering and social distancing limits in N.C. are no longer in place, Gov. Roy Cooper announced in a news conference Friday.
This is part of a series that looks at bills the state legislature has introduced, the progress they have made in the chamber and what impact they might have on the state moving forward. Read last week's roundup here.
Students in K-12 schools have faced heightened barriers to attending classes since the beginning of the pandemic. Issues related to broadband access, student and family health and a lack of social and emotional support have all contributed to falling attendance rates.
On April 21, Pasquotank County Sheriff's deputies shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black man whose family attorneys say was unarmed, outside his home in Elizabeth City — an event that shook the small community of almost 18,000 people.
Update May 7 at 1:46 p.m.: A judge ruled Thursday that Andrew Brown Jr.'s family will only be able to view less than 20 minutes of the almost two hours of footage captured before and after Brown was killed.
Starting Friday, masks will no longer be required outdoors, and mass gathering limits in N.C. will increase to 100 people indoors and 200 outdoors.
Update 3:15 p.m.: Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten released the names of the seven deputies involved in the death of Andrew Brown Thursday.
This article was originally published as a part of the UNC Media Hub program in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media and has been republished by The Daily Tar Heel.
This is part of a series that looks at bills the state legislature has introduced, the progress they have made in the chamber and what their impact might be on the state moving forward. Read last week's roundup here.
North Carolina is expected to grow by more than 1 million people over the next decade. But we aren’t ready to accommodate that growth, because there is not enough housing. A group of N.C. Senate Democrats proposed a potential solution this month through Senate Bill 588, “Low-Income Housing Tax Credits.”
On April 13, the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration issued a recommended pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine due to a rare and severe type of blood clot reported in six women aged 18 to 48 between six and 13 days after the shot was administered. Over 6.8 million doses of the vaccine had been administered before the pause was announced.