The Department of Public Safety disagreed with the findings, saying it wasn’t specifically responsible for oversight, but agreed that state law should provide clearer guidelines.

(Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline) A new audit of North Carolina’s Hurricane Florence relief fund found additional money that was spent without proper verification in the years after the 2018 ...

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein spent his first full day in office in Western North Carolina, highlighting new action ...

One main theme in N&O reporting found North Carolina legislative leaders using the state budget to devote taxpayer dollars to ...

The state agency responsible for overseeing Hurricane Florence recovery funds failed ... according to a new state audit. This is not the first time North Carolina auditors have raised concerns ...

New North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein has already taken several actions to help the short- and long-term recovery from Hurricane ...

In one of his first acts as North Carolina’s new leader, Gov. Josh Stein signed an executive order to complete repairs on 8,000 roads and bridges that sustained damage during Hurricane Helene.

New governor Josh Stein has made Hurricane Helene recovery a focus of his first week in office by signing several executive ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Several new state laws went into effect at midnight, ranging from insurance protections to hurricane relief measures. Others will go into affect a few months down the road.

Students will no longer have full access to their cellphones when they return in January, and will be required to turn them off and put them away for the entire school day. Four EMS workers have ...

Steven Troxler, commissioner of the NC Department of Agriculture, details the damage caused by Hurricane Helene (Photo ... more help would be coming from the federal government in the new year, but ...