RALEIGH, N.C.  - Amazon.com has pulled the plug on commissions for North Carolina Web sites that make referrals to the online retailer because a new tax could soon be enacted.
Seattle-based Amazon said it wrote to Web site operators, telling them the commission program will end after Friday.
Web sites that post links to the company about [...]

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Candidate filing for the 2009 Municipal Elections and the Chapel Hill/Carrboro School Board will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, July 6 and end at noon on Friday, July 17 at the Orange County Board of Elections office located at 110 East King Street in Hillsborough.
Filing forms, along with the proper filing [...]

RALEIGH, N.C.  - Contractors with unsold homes would get more time to pay property taxes on them in a bill approved by North Carolina lawmakers.
The House agreed by a wide margin Thursday to allow construction firms to defer local property taxes on homes they’ve been unable to sell for up to three years.
Legislative staff says [...]

RALEIGH, N.C.  - Contractors with unsold homes would get more time to pay property taxes on them in a bill approved by North Carolina lawmakers.
The House agreed by a wide margin Thursday to allow construction firms to defer local property taxes on homes they’ve been unable to sell for up to three years.
Legislative staff says [...]

RALEIGH, N.C.  - The Legislature isn’t going to make a deadline to get a final budget for North Carolina state government approved by early next week.
The House Appropriations Committee agreed Thursday to a temporary spending measure that directs how government agencies keep operating after the new fiscal year begins Wednesday.
Rep. Mickey Michaux of Durham County [...]

RALEIGH, N.C.  - The Legislature has given its final approval to changes in North Carolina’s sex education curriculum in public schools for young teenagers.
The House narrowly agreed Thursday to the Senate version of the bill, which explains how all school systems must teach sex education in grades seven through nine. Gov. Beverly Perdue is expected [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. - Young motorboat drivers in North Carolina would be required to meet minimum boating safety education requirements in legislation approved by the House.
The bill approved Wednesday would obligate people under age 26 to complete an approved boating safety course or pass a test to operate a boat with a motor of at least [...]

FORT BRAGG, N.C.  - Paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division task force now serving in Afghanistan can stay in touch with friends and family through a Facebook profile.
The division has announced that word about the profile for Combined Joint Task Force-82 in eastern Afghanistan spread quickly and added 100 fans overnight.
Maj. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti is [...]

RALEIGH, N.C.  - North Carolina lawmakers are unveiling a proposal for who would pay claims for coastal damage after a bad hurricane season.
The House Insurance Committee on Thursday is considering an attempted compromise on the Beach Plan that’s still unlikely to please property owners or insurance companies.
The legislation is trying to fix the state-created insurance [...]