In just over a month, lawmakers passed breakthrough legislation addressing housing, drug addiction and campaign finance reform. Longshot bills mired in controversy ultimately won broad support, ...

Latebreaking poster sessions consist of individually submitted abstracts that have been sorted into thematic sessions based on topics ranked by each speaker during abstract submission. Poster sessions ...

A drone photograph shows the North Carolina Capitol building (foreground) and the General Assembly building (center), Wednesday Nov. 24, 2024. Travis Long tlong@newsobserver.com Never in North ...

The 2025 legislative session was notoriously unproductive. Only 97 bills became law, a record low for odd-year legislative sessions, sometimes called “long sessions.” During the long sessions, ...