Legislators first reduced that time during the pandemic. Since then, the crash rate among 16-year-old drivers has risen 13 percent.

N.C. Senate Republicans have ratcheted up with their 2025-26 state budget bill their strategy of inserting controversial ...

The elections board’s interpretation of the cure period, if it holds, appears to raise the likelihood that Riggs will maintain her victory. But further court action could alter the plan.