Mary Helen Moore
NC Newsroom ReporterMary Helen Moore is a reporter with the NC Newsroom, a journalism collaboration expanding state government news coverage for North Carolina audiences. The collaboration is funded by a two-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She can be reached at mmoore@ncnewsroom.org
Moore is a native of Halifax County and a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate. She loves reading, fishing, doing puzzles, and baking. Her state reporting experience includes coverage of real estate and growth at the News & Observer, where she most recently served as Durham reporter. She has won numerous journalism awards in North Carolina and Florida.
-
Moments before the Hurricane Helene relief package was passed by both chambers, legislators struck a controversial provision. -
The House won't take up the proposal, which also would have opened up recreation flounder and red snapper fishing seasons. -
Democrat Josh Stein made his decisions late Friday afternoon. -
Lawmakers said legislation is needed to protect fish in North Carolina's coasts and sounds. -
North Carolina is the only state on the East Coast that allows shrimp trawling in sounds and estuaries. -
The General Assembly is considering intervening to keep the prior Lincoln-Catawba county line. -
The Republican-controlled General Assembly passed two pieces of immigration legislation. Democratic Governor Josh Stein has 10 days to sign or veto. -
Gov. Josh Stein met with reporters to talk about Western North Carolina's recovery and preparedness for tropical storms. -
Republicans want a deeper relationship with ICE amid Trump administration's mass deportation push. -
North Carolina would save $50 million a year if the Powell Bill provision makes it into the final budget.
