4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (877+ words) Listen to this story (13 minutes) North Carolina’s highest court will decide in the months ahead whether state Attorney General Jeff Jackson can proceed with his lawsuit in state court against social media giant TikTok. Lawyers representing Jackson and TikTok argued…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (278+ words) According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, North Carolina experienced no net job growth in July. Indeed, employers as a whole reported 3,000 fewer people on the payroll in July than in May. Year-to-year, our state’s job-growth rate was just…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1416+ words) Listen to this story (20 minutes) The US Supreme Court has voted, 8-1, to issue a stay blocking a lower court ruling that favored North Carolina’s Roy Cooper and three other Democratic congressional candidates in this year’s elections. The ruling focused on…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (427+ words) While Canada remains North Carolina’s top foreign trade partner, new data from the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina show a decline in trade, even before the recent tariffs imposed by the Trump administration took effect. New data from the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (746+ words) The Pacific Legal Foundation is watching with interest as North Carolina’s second-highest court tackles a case involving the state Department of Transportation and just compensation. At stake is more than $150,000 in legal costs awarded to a property owner in a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (615+ words) A Wake County family nurse practitioner is challenging a North Carolina law that requires her to contract with a physician before she can work in the state. She filed suit Wednesday against the leaders of the state medical and nursing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1763+ words) Listen to this story (16 minutes) Around 1959, a struggling Broadway actor with a few film credits to his name pitched an idea to the influential Desilu studio that would transform both the television industry and the state of North Carolina for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1095+ words) Listen to this story (14 minutes) The Republican National Committee is asking the nation’s highest court to overturn an appellate court decision limiting the types of election campaign organizations that qualify for the lowest broadcast media advertising rates. North Carolina US…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1009+ words) US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used the G20 finance ministers meeting in Asheville to press allies on the economic campaign against Iran, saying the United States and China have more in common than differences when it comes to preventing Tehran from…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (901+ words) North Carolina joined more than 20 other states Monday in urging a federal Appeals Court to uphold a trial court’s decision rejecting Trump administration tariffs. A new brief at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also asked appellate…...