---
title: North Carolina News
description: 
canonical_url: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news?start=42
language: en-US
date: 2025-11-17T21:50:38Z
notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news?start=42.
markdown-tokens: 473
---

> **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news?start=42. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content.
> **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above.


[ ![Medicaid gets $1B cut of state budget, SNAP $5.3M](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/joomgrabber/2026-07/37d1c861a4.jpeg) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/medicaid-gets-1b-cut-of-state-budget-snap-5-3m)

 By Alan Wooten | The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Medicaid is slated for $1 billion, SNAP for $5.3 million, and a new children’s hospital in the Triangle for $208.5 million in North Carolina’s $34.4 billion state budget.

 

 

 

 

[ ![State budget among 19 bills considered this week by Stein](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/joomgrabber/2026-07/619f3eb004.jpeg) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/state-budget-among-19-bills-considered-this-week-by-stein)

 By Alan Wooten | The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Five bills are to be presented to the North Carolina governor for signing into law on Monday, four bills got his signature on Thursday, and 14 more were

 

 

 

 

[ ![Hurricane Helene relief appropriation $700M, pushes Legislature total to $2.8B](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/joomgrabber/2026-07/37d1c861a4.jpeg) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/hurricane-helene-relief-appropriation-700m-pushes-legislature-total-to-2-8b)

 By Alan Wooten | The Center Square

(The Center Square) – In some hamlets of the mountains, the impact of Hurricane Helene isn’t easily seen anymore. Elsewhere, the need is only in the second of as much as five