North Carolina legislative leaders say they'll delay the confirmation process for several of Gov. Pat McCrory's choices to government positions because of a court ruling involving appointment powers.

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The North Carolina governor who worked at an energy company now under fire for leaking coal-ash pits won a legal ruling Monday that could give him more power in choosing members of the commission overseeing the dumps' cleanup.

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Lawmakers are considering a bill that would make the North Carolina Department of Transportation pay for offering unfairly low buyout prices to property owners facing condemnation.

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The minimum salary for a North Carolina public school teacher almost assuredly will rise next fall. And more opportunities for higher pay for teachers of high-demand subjects or within hard-to-staff schools will receive much debate.

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This year's General Assembly session ended less than three weeks ago and lawmakers already are returning to keep tabs on how state government is operating.

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The top leader in the North Carolina House during the mid-1990s is now atop a nonpartisan group's list of the General Assembly's most influential lobbyists.

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Gov. Pat McCrory has signed the last bill left behind by the General Assembly when it completed most of its work for the year this month.

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The North Carolina House and Senate spent weeks this summer unable to agree on a state budget. Now their inability to agree on how to adjourn could leave this year's session in more confusion.

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They call it the short session, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. In the first week of business for its 2014 session, the North Carolina General Assembly took action on a raft of proposed laws that would directly impact ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — The General Assembly is likely to debate legislation this session that would streamline local business taxes, even as some lawmakers and municipal lobbyists caution towns and cities could have to raise property taxes if it passed. A ...

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