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The Green Party will remain an official party in North Carolina, able to field candidates statewide through the 2028 elections. The Republican majority on the State Board of Elections voted Thursday to allow the North Carolina Green Party to be recognized again in the ninth-largest state. -
A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report says the pilot of a small plane that crashed at a North Carolina airport runway this month raised a wheel after landing to avoid hitting a turtle. -
Many rural hospitals would face closure if the federal budget proposal becomes law. Meanwhile, a plan to regulate hemp products gains traction at the legislature. And, could the UNC system cap employment? Those stories and more on the NC News Roundup. -
A flight attendant and a travel reporter highlight the unseen lives and labor of flight attendants, from jam-packed safety trainings to the emotional care of passengers in a high stakes atmosphere. -
Research by Public Schools First NC found many private schools receiving Opportunity Scholarships raised tuition by 15% or more after the state increased voucher funding. -
Senate Bill 266 also shifts some costs of purchased power from industrial to residential customers by changing how they're calculated. -
Critics of the federal proposal to impose a work requirement on Medicaid recipients warn that red tape — not unemployment — would drive people off the rolls. -
The Republican pieces of legislation Senate Bill 153 and House Bill 318 would force the state to be more deeply involved with the Trump Administration's deportation efforts. -
Leoneda Inge talks to the NC Juneteenth State Director Phyllis Coley, Kindred Spirits Quilting Conference director Kimberly Cartwright and author and entrepreneur Natasha Sistrunk Robinson about various commemorations of Juneteenth in NC this year.
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Many rural hospitals would face closure if the federal budget proposal becomes law. Meanwhile, a plan to regulate hemp products gains traction at the legislature. And, could the UNC system cap employment? Those stories and more on the NC News Roundup.
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