Category Archives: State News

State prison officials have initiated a plan to test all 31,000 offenders for COVID-19."We've done some mass testing at prisons with significant outbreaks of this awful virus, but now we are going to ...

VIRUS OUTBREAK-MASK REQUIREMENTRaleigh issues emergency order requiring face coveringsRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's capital city is set to require people wear face coverings in an effort to sl...

BC-NC-VIRUS OUTBREAK-HOTEL JOBS CUT700-plus hotel jobs in Charlotte impacted by virus pandemicCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The jobs of more than 700 people who work at hotels in Charlotte, North Carolina, h...

Gov. Roy Cooper says people are tired of the coronavirus. However, the governor also reminds that COVID-19 is still deadly.As of Friday's figures from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services,...

North Carolina has crossed 1,000 coronavirus deaths. According to Thursday's update from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, there have 39,481 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in t...

(NORTH CAROLINA NEWS NETWORK) — Just in time for Hurricane season, North Carolina emergency response officials are out with a new way to manage traffic if there’s a need for an evacuation ...

VIRUS OUTBREAKMany forces behind alarming rise in virus cases in 21 statesNEW YORK (AP) - Coronavirus cases are rising in nearly half the U.S. states. And while many are chalked up to increased testin...

AMERICA PROTESTS-MILITARY-CONFEDERATE SYMBOLSUS military now rethinking links to Confederate Army symbolsWASHINGTON (AP) - The military is rethinking its traditional embrace or tolerance of Confederat...

As many across the nation and in North Carolina express horror at the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, NC Public Safety Secretary Erik A. Hooks says it's an appropri...

AMERICA PROTESTS-CHARLOTTE SCUFFLEN. Carolina officer ‘assaulted in broad daylight’ at protestCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer who has met with and walked with...