NC Budget

Earlier this year, WUNC reported on a teacher who lost her teaching license because she struggled to pass a licensing exam. ‘Ms. Art’ is an elementary art teacher who struggles with testing anxiety. Now, a policy that passed as part of the state budget offers a solution to keep teachers like her in classrooms.

North Carolina’s state budget is getting passed later and later. What that means for your tax dollars.

The state House and Senate voted Thursday afternoon to pass a long-delayed $30 billion spending plan. The House took a final vote in a rare midnight session, with the Senate finalizing the bill Friday morning.

After months of negotiations between House and Senate Republicans, the legislature has finally released its budget agreement on Wednesday afternoon.

Some business leaders question including a $500 million fund for innovation in state budget.

State lawmakers are supposed to pass a budget by July, but debates between Republican leaders are dragging into the fall, affecting schools.

A disagreement over new casinos is leading to more delays for North Carolina’s overdue state budget.

Cooper met with elected officials and physicians in Martin, Richmond and Yadkin counties to attempt to build pressure upon Republican legislation to hustle on a budget agreement. Right now, an enacted budget law is what's blocking coverage to an estimated 600,000 low-income adults.

State lawmakers say they’ve made progress this week on a budget agreement. But they’ve postponed votes on veto overrides and other issues for another week.

The newest state historic site will spotlight the role of free Black residents in North Carolina during slavery. State government will soon run the house in the Caswell County town of Milton where Thomas Day built a famed furniture business.