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A federal lawsuit filed this week challenging the new districts for the North Carolina State Senate is likely just the first of what could be multiple cases, according to experts.
North Carolina has seen a rise in flu cases in recent weeks in combination with rising RSV cases and continued COVID-19 activity.
Across the state, all of or parts of 96 counties were classified as abnormally dry or worse.
North Carolina will formally expand Medicaid coverage to more than half a million low-income people.
A lawsuit filed Monday in North Carolina alleges newly adopted district boundaries for the state Senate divide a cluster of predominantly Black counties in the northeast corner of the state in a way that unfairly dilutes the voting power of Black residents. Two Black voters drawn into a majority-white district are asking a federal judge to block state officials from conducting future elections under a new map they argue unlawfully deprives them the opportunity to elect their preferred candidates. Plaintiffs Rodney Pierce, a social studies teacher from Halifax County, and Moses Matthews, a re...