The North Carolina Newsroom is a journalism collaboration expanding state government news coverage for North Carolina audiences. Reporters Adam Wagner and Mary Helen Moore will report stories that matter in communities served by public radio stations WFAE, WFDD, BPR, WHQR, and WUNC.
The collaboration is funded by a two-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
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The General Assembly provided $500 million to the program this summer. DHHS says it needs $319 million more. -
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will offer 50% of typical benefits in November using a reserve fund. North Carolina was one of the states that sued to require it to use that money amid federal shutdown. -
The federal program provides food, formula and support to about 262,000 people in North Carolina. -
North Carolina joins other states in lawsuit to protect SNAP benefits, prevent 'major hunger crisis'The Trump Administration has said it will not use reserve funds to continue providing SNAP amid the federal shutdown. More than 1.3 million North Carolinians use the program to buy food. -
The new map shifts eastern North Carolina counties between the state's 1st and 3rd Districts to give Republicans a clear advantage in both. -
The NC General Assembly approved the new Congressional map this week. It shifts the state's 1st Congressional District from a swing district to one where a Republican can more easily win. -
The N.C. House of Representatives voted to approve the new map Wednesday. It redraws the state's 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts to give Republicans a clear advantage in both seats. -
The Senate formally passed the new map Tuesday, and it started to make its way through the state House of Representatives. -
North Carolina Republicans redrew district lines in eastern North Carolina with the intention of shifting the balance of the state's First Congressional District. It is the latest salvo in a national effort to render U.S. Congress elections uncompetitive.
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Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined 22 other states in suing the Environmental Protection Agency to restore the $7 billion program. It would have helped provide rooftop solar systems to low-income and rural households.
