Dale Folwell

Not only will voters in North Carolina cast their ballots in a U.S. Presidential race in 2024, but they'll elect a new governor for the state too as Democrat Roy Cooper wraps up his tenure.

The Republican primary campaign for governor is already getting negative. Three of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s GOP opponents have recently gone on the attack.

More members of the state commission that oversees local government audits are raising concerns about Elizabeth City's finances.

State Treasurer Dale Folwell is calling on North Carolina lawmakers to pass new consumer protections addressing medical debt collections.

Officials in Elizabeth City say they have submitted one of two overdue audits that drew the attention of the state treasurer.

North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell announced on Saturday he will run for governor in 2024, a bid that will likely require him besting Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to earn the Republican nomination.While Republicans have controlled North Carolina's legislature since 2011

This is now the fifth report issued by the treasurer's office critical of hospital finances. Folwell has called the state's hospitals a "cartel," and accused them of driving up health care costs.

Health care accounts for one out of every $5 spent in the United States. Expensive drugs and medical devices have received public scrutiny, but only recently have hospitals come under the microscope.

A group that advocates for communities impacted by private equity investments has asked the North Carolina retirement fund to stop investing with a particular private equity group. But the state's investment manager says the retirement fund has limited influence.

State Treasurer Dale Folwell and the State Health Plan Board of Trustees announced Wednesday that they have to reinstate coverage of “medically necessary services” — including hormone replacement therapy and surgeries — which the health plan had provided for a single year in 2017.