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A Democrat in the North Carolina state House switched to the Republican Party on Wednesday, giving the GOP veto-proof control in both chambers of the legislature and handing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper a setback in trying to block hardline conservative policies in his final two years in office.

Governance of the state’s public residential schools for the deaf and the blind is being shifted to new trustee boards controlled by General Assembly appointees in 

The City of Winston-Salem has taken over residential recycling collections from Waste Management of Carolinas Inc., which had done the job for over 30 years.

Officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are reminding residents that tick bites can cause serious illnesses such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Hundreds of acres of land along the Dan River will soon be open to the public for recreation, river access, and plans are in place to eventually make the land part of the state’s nearly 1,200-mile-long Mountains-to-Sea Trail.

The changes are being made as COVID-19 evolves into a routine part of public health and health care activities.

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan touted the city’s economic achievements in her first-ever “State of the City” address Thursday.

A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter, his lawyers said Thursday, producing the first criminal case against a former U.S. president and a jolt to Trump’s bid to retake the White House.