COVID-19

Travis Fain & Laura Leslie, WRAL — North Carolina school boards won’t get a break from angry mask protests anytime soon. Twice in two days, House Republicans blocked efforts to undo a …
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Laura Leslie & Matthew Burns, WRAL — Senate Republicans took another swing at Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday, passing the latest bill that would rein in his authority during a …
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Travis Fain, WRAL — Rumors of a coronavirus outbreak set some members of the General Assembly on edge this weekend. WRAL News has confirmed two cases and an additional negative …
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Laura Leslie, WRAL — State lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to a bill requiring written parental permission before minors can be given vaccines authorized under emergency use by the …
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Laura Leslie, WRAL — The state House approved legislation Wednesday that would prevent the Cooper administration from enforcing a statewide mask mandate in schools during the upcoming school year. Rep. David Willis, …
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Travis Fain, WRAL — The state is tracking roughly $81 billion in federal pandemic stimulus spending – so much that it started a new office last year to keep up …
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Laura Leslie, WRAL — State House lawmakers have passed a bill that would remove the state from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program. Senate Bill 116 now goes back to the …
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Laura Leslie, WRAL — North Carolina House leaders are backing a bill to cut off the $300 federal jobless checks some believe are causing a labor shortage in North Carolina. It’s …
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Laura Leslie and Maggie Brown, WRAL — A proposal by Senate Republicans to pay back-to-work bonuses passed the state Senate 35-10 Tuesday, despite a federal roadblock that will take an …
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Matthew Burns, WRAL – Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration didn’t have the processes in place to monitor how state and local agencies spent more than $3 billion in federal coronavirus pandemic …
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