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The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature has passed a supplemental spending bill that does away with a large waitlist for private school vouchers. The bill also directs sheriffs to assist federal immigration agents seeking jail inmates.

A longtime advocate for Republican K-12 education policies in the North Carolina House is resigning from his seat a few months before his term was to end. Rep. Jeffrey Elmore of Wilkes County will step down effective Friday afternoon.

State Rep. Kelly Alexander Jr., a scion of an influential civil rights family in North Carolina who advocated for legalizing medical cannabis, died Friday. He was 75.

Clark will fill out the unexpired term of Ashton Clemmons, who announced last month she was stepping down.

The current longest-serving North Carolina House member is back at her former position leading a prominent committee more than three years after 

Dozens of North Carolina parents came to Raleigh to urge Republican legislators to fully fund scholarships for children to attend private and religious schools.

North Carolina's Republican-controlled House has overridden three of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes. The party-line votes Wednesday sent the overrides to the Senate for consideration.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has signed legislation that places an official definition of antisemitism into state law. Bill critics said the measure could stifle speech of Israel's critics.

The North Carolina General Assembly is racing to advance legislation before completing its chief working session for the year. But the House and Senate could return later this summer to settle unfinished business.

Multiple Forsyth County leaders spoke out against a local government bill that would change all of their respective municipal elections, apart from those in Winston-Salem, from nonpartisan to parti