The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill its sponsors say protects First Amendment rights at University of North Carolina campuses.

The state House wants North Carolina governmental bodies to record many meetings they hold behind closed doors.

The fire broke out at Northgate Apartments on East Northern Boulevard in Tarboro around 6:00 a.m. Thursday.

The autopsy shows that emergency responders found a can of aerosol computer cleaning spray in the student's bed and several empty cans in the room.

Two men are accused of stealing $100,000 worth of copper from Progress Energy facilities in several North Carolina counties and then selling it for scrap in Virginia.

It was a big day for a group of inmates at Craven Correctional as they graduated another class of dogs they train to be adopted by the community.

A near unanimous voice of faculty opposition at ECU to proposed state legislation that would allow concealed weapons left in locked cars on campus.

The North Carolina House wants voters to decide whether to limit how long people can serve as the General Assembly's top leaders.

Two bills dealing with newborn children have been signed into law by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory.

House Republicans seeking to further restrict abortions in North Carolina have passed a bill barring the procedures on the basis of the gender of the fetus.

Legislation making it a crime to fail to report a missing child and increasing punishment for false reports about similar investigations is heading to Gov. Pat McCrory's desk.

Big changes could be coming that would restrict teens access to health care in our state, unless they have consent from their parents.

A bill exempting North Carolina's judges and clerks of court from limits on where they can carry concealed weapons has passed the House.

Senator Kay Hagan announced Tuesday North Carolina will receive $12.3 million in federal funding to repair damage caused by hurricane Sandy.

A group is honoring military spouses one shoe box at a time. A group of 1000 military spouses in the east are getting thank yous this week from the non-profit group Support Military Spouses.

Detectives in the east say the calls come from a number that tracks back to Washington DC, but the concern for some is that scammers are calling your friends from your contact list.

A bill creating a separate approval and oversight board for taxpayer-funded charter schools in North Carolina has passed the state Senate.

The bill passed by the House Tuesday permits alcohol sales in the seating areas of professional ballparks with a capacity of at least 3,000 people.

The North Carolina Attorney General says just requesting information online for a payday loan can put your information and your money at risk.

A Catawba County middle school teacher has been suspended with pay after his arrest on a peeping charge.

A couple is facing child abuse charges after police say they used plastic zip ties to bind their four year to a baby gate.

Dozens of North Carolina coastal fishermen are making their voices heard on legislation that would essentially prevent commercial boats from catching and selling three fish species.

Senate Republicans have rolled out the frame of their tax overhaul plan for North Carolina they say will cut income tax rates while expanding the scope of the sales tax.

The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping - for many a largely tax-free frontier - to state sales taxes.

Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.