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It's not just the state budget that's in a stalemate at the General Assembly. Cassie Gavin reports that some environmentally interesting measures appear to be caught in a back-and-forth that is preventing them from reaching votes.

North Carolina lawmakers are shuffling bills on and off the House and Senate calendar as they seek better odds for passage - and a way to fix a budget impasse - in what might be the session's waning days. Cassie Gavin warns that there may be more to...

The battle over North Carolina's budget began in earnest this week as Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the legislative spending plan and sent it back to state lawmakers. Meanwhile, Cassie Gavin writes, environmental bills continued to make their way through...

As budget negotiators focus on their job behind closed doors, other members of the General Assembly try to cram in as much action as possible on priority bills before the session ends - whenever that may be, writes Cassie Gavin.

The state Senate this evening passed a measure meant to support North Carolina's farmers, but with giveaways to industrial hog operations that endanger the environment and public health. Senate Bill 315, the Farm Act, contains a section that would...

Cassie Gavin tells how the Senate hurried along several environmentally harmful bills this week, as budget negotiators do their work behind closed doors. The negotiations seem to have opened up space for more committee work, Gavin writes.

The N.C. Senate today passed a bill that would block wind energy development - and the economic boost it provides - across much of North Carolina for three years. Senate Bill S377, "Military Base Protection Act," sponsored by Senate Majority...

Citing "significant adverse impacts" on fish habitats, fisheries, marine food webs and North Carolina's coastal economy, the state Division of Coastal Management (DCM) today rebuffed a company's plan to conduct seismic blasting off the coast.

The challenge to wind energy development continues in the N.C. General Assembly, as part of a flurry of environmentally harmful legislation considered this week, Cassie Gavin writes.

The Senate has approved its budget, so now lawmakers get to hammer out a compromise version of the House and Senate spending plans and send it to Governor Cooper - who offered his own proposal. Cassie Gavin shares the highlights of the Senate's just...