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North Carolina's U.S. Senate race continues to heat up as Republican Michael Whatley announced his bid in Gastonia.

Officials from the Governor's Recovery Office for Western North Carolina and N.C. Emergency Management were speaking in front of a legislative hurricane recovery committee.

Heat is the No.1 weather-related killer among humans in the United States. But how hot is too hot for pets?

The elevated numbers suggest the region’s economy continues to feel the impact from the historic storm.

The Vermont senator will appear at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on August 10.

Building, rehabilitating, instructing, developing, growing, employing. Those are the promises made by the BRIDGE program, which trains incarcerated young men to fight fires, among other skills. But does it hold true to those promises?

Rep. Nasif Majeed, a Mecklenburg County Democrat, cast the deciding vote to override Stein's veto. The bill originally started as an effort to help people get pornographic material removed, but the Senate added a number of policies regulating trans people.

Attorneys with Zois and Miller, one of the firms representing victims who are suing the federal government and the Department of the Navy for damages connected to illnesses cause by toxic water aboard the base, said the federal court has ruled that experts can use established science to explain why contaminated water likely caused a claimant’s illness, but if a report tries to introduce new studies or exposure models that weren’t disclosed before last December, they’ll be excluded.

A dig in eastern North Carolina last week had a scientist up to his armpits in mud, and led to some great finds for a museum collection, including fossils from the age of dinosaurs. The paleontologist that led the dig is also hoping to someday solve an enduring Onslow County fossil mystery.

FEMA cancelled more than $200 million in storm resiliency funding for the state, and the small Jones County town was supposed to get $1.1 million of it. Jackson has sued the federal government over the funding cancellation – saying FEMA doesn’t have the authority to cancel congressionally appropriated spending.