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• 3 Wake County Judge Rules North Carolina Breached Public-Trust Duty on Coastal Fisheries; Parties Given 45 Days on Remedy
• 6 Annexation Bid for Southeast Raleigh Data Center Withdrawn Before Aug. 18 Council Vote
• 6 NC Gov. Stein Vetoes Two GOP Bills: One Cutting Primary Early Voting to 10 Days, One Letting the Chief Justice Suspend Trial Judges Without Pay
• 6 Records Show NC Auditor's Staff Urged County Boards on Early-Voting Sites; Watchdog Asks Elections Board to Subpoena Ex-Liaison
• 6 Goldsboro Police Charge 17-Year-Old in Aug. 15 Double Homicide; Third Juvenile Charged in Two Separate City Killings Since Aug. 13
• 6 North Carolina Elections Board to Decide Early Voting Plans for 20 Counties on Aug. 20 After Local Boards Split
• 2 NC Attorney General Says Duke Energy Misstated Residential Rate Increase Under Oath; Duke Calls It a Mix-Up
• 4 NC Budget Corrections Bill Ratified Aug. 6 Adds No Wake County Prosecutors; Office Funded for 45 of the 69.7 Positions a State Workload Study Lists
• 5 Elon University Poll Finds Cooper at 53% and Whatley at 42% Among Likely North Carolina Voters
• 6 North Carolina Commits $40 Million Over Four Years to Greensboro PGA Tour Event; Tour Names It a 2028 Championship Series Stop
• 4 33 of North Carolina's 115 School Districts Set 2026-27 Start Dates Before the Legal Aug. 24 Opening
• 4 N.C. Gov. Stein Signs Regulatory Reform Act Requiring Cities Over 50,000 to Allow Accessory Dwelling Units
• 6 NC Lawmakers Approved $319 Million for Medicaid in April 2026; October 2025 Provider Rate Cuts and GLP-1 Cutoff Were Reversed in December 2025
• 5 North Carolina Legislature Adjourns Until After November Election, Having Enacted 54 Laws in the 2026 Session
• 3 Wilmington Council Votes 6-0 to Join Federal Historic Review of Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, Asks for a Wider Study Area