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Add election offices in all 100 counties to places where North Carolina voters can obtain photo identification cards

The U.S. Department of Labor has named Forsyth Technical Community College to its latest list of Apprenticeship Ambassadors.

A collaborative effort to support Pre-K classrooms in Forsyth County is underway. American Rescue Plan Act funds will be used to address staffing issues and other challenges in early childhood education.

For the team of people working to forecast air quality at the Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection, this summer has been a wildcard. Smoke from the Canadian wildfires brought more back-to-back poor air quality days than the area has seen in years. The county has been at an advantage though: It’s one of only three in the state to operate its own air quality monitoring stations and it's the only one that issues its own daily forecasts. 

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper said on Tuesday he's skeptical that an apparent tax agreement by Republican legislative leaders within a state budget that's still being negotiated would over time protect revenues to fund pressing needs within government.

The High Country community of Beech Mountain is getting a highway marker to honor famed storyteller Ray Hicks.

Most of the construction work was completed in December. The next phase involves setting up water, sanitary sewer, and stormwater utilities, which should take about 90 days. 

Most of what North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate and State Treasurer Dale Folwell raised during the first half of the year for his campaign committee has come from $1 million that he

A wildfire burning in the North Carolina mountains has led to some trail closures and smoke warnings. 

A North Carolina man who drove his car into a group of migrant workers in a Walmart parking lot, injuring six men, turned himself in to police Monday night.