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North Carolina is launching a new campaign to raise awareness about sexual health. 

The Census Bureau says nine of the 15 fastest-growing cities in the country are in the South. Burlington didn’t make that list. But the Alamance County municipality does sit atop the growth charts for four cities in this region with 50,000 or more people.

“People don't understand the cost that goes along with feminine care products or even just personal care items," Carver High School Principal Thyais Maxwell said. "And when you experience poverty, or when you have to make a decision about food, the price of gas, or these items, sometimes you're stuck in a really difficult situation.”

A business investment in Randolph County could help the local economy keep on running. 

Speedway Motorsports CEO Marcus Smith said North Wilkesboro Speedway “definitely has a place in the NASCAR world” moving forward, despite 

More than a hundred people gathered outside of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem Sunday afternoon to support LGBTQ youth. 

Guilford County is working to determine how to use nearly $22 million to address the opioid crisis.  The funding comes from a state settlement with drug distributors and manufacturers. 

Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is embarking on a campaign to try to beat back education and tax legislation from the Republican-controlled General Assembly that he says if enacted would crush North Carolina's public schools and wobble the state's economic future.

Guilford County Manager Michael Halford presented his recommendations for a fiscal year 2024 budget to the Board of County Commissioners last Thursday.

Ex-U.S. Rep. Mark Walker formally entered next year’s race for North Carolina governor on Saturday, saying that he's best suited to win the seat that has eluded Republicans for much of the past three decades, by attracting a diverse set of voters in the otherwise closely divided state.