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The N.C. Office of the State Auditor released its look into the Division of Motor Vehicles. It found that wait times have increased since 2019, staffing levels of driver license examiners remain low and DMV technology is perilously outdated.

Summer vacation ended last week for the North Carolina General Assembly, at least for a few days. The state House and Senate returned to Raleigh to override several of Gov. Josh Stein's vetoes and hammer out a mini budget.

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.