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Democrat Josh Stein made his decisions late Friday afternoon.

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.

Supporters of the bill say private schools do not have school resource officers like their public counterparts. Opponents argue the person carrying the weapon will likely be largely untrained.

The NC Museum of Natural Sciences' special exhibition on blue whales will open this weekend for the next six months.

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.

If the bill becomes law, Mecklenburg County voters would vote as soon as this fall on a one percent sales tax to help fund billions of dollars of transportation projects.

Lawmakers said legislation is needed to protect fish in North Carolina's coasts and sounds.

The state Senate is scheduled to vote Thursday on regulating hemp and THC products, an effort to keep the products away from young people.