Gov. Josh Stein

North Carolina can seek federal funding to help its overloaded response efforts to Tropical Storm Chantal, which killed at least six people and left damage from flooding in its wake, as Gov. Josh Stein announced a state of emergency Thursday.

North Carolina's Democratic Gov. Josh Stein decided Wednesday against appealing a trial court ruling that did not go in his favor last month, securing a small victory for Republican lawmakers whom the governor was challenging.

Democratic Gov. Josh Stein cleared his desk Wednesday of the deluge of bills passed to him from the North Carolina General Assembly last month, three of which he vetoed.

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Josh Stein has vetoed his first bills. On Friday he blocked, for now, Republican legislation that would let adults carry concealed handguns without a permit and make state agencies and local sheriffs more active in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

A panel of North Carolina trial judges dismissed Democratic Gov. Josh Stein's case against GOP legislative leaders over the issue of who gets to appoint and remove the State Highway Patrol commander.

On Wednesday, Amazon announced that it will invest approximately $10 billion and add 500 jobs with a new data center campus to be built in Richmond County, North Carolina.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein made another request of state lawmakers to commit hundreds of millions more dollars to western North Carolina's recovery from Hurricane Helene last year. Stein's proposal announced Monday totals $891 million.

Travelers to North Carolina spent nearly $37 billion last year, surpassing the previous record set in 2023.

A North Carolina appeals court ruled Wednesday that a law stripping the governor's authority to appoint State Board of Elections members can take effect for now, even though trial judges struck it down as unconstitutional just last week.

Most of the money would go toward housing recovery for low and moderate-income residents in the region.