Press Releases

On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Governor Roy Cooper signed a Type I state disaster declaration for individual assistance for Catawba County and contiguous counties that suffered damage from an EF-1 tornado on January 9, 2024.

Aviation management company, Sovereign Aerospace, will invest $4.15 million to manufacture, sell, and service personal aircraft in Elizabethtown, Governor Roy Cooper announced today.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper visited Diggs-Latham Elementary in Winston-Salem as part of “The Year of Public Schools” education tour.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced appointments to state boards and commissions.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper visited Millbrook Magnet High School in Raleigh as part of “The Year of Public Schools” education tour.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper joined the Reproductive Freedom Alliance in filing an amicus curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court to protect women’s health and access to mifepristone, an FDA-approved and proven safe abortion medication.

Last week, Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger angrily and directly acknowledged that the legislature’s school voucher expansion is funded through cuts to public schools.

Today, Governor Cooper issued Executive Order No. 303 directing whole-of-government coordination to improve reentry for formerly incarcerated people in the most significant effort targeted at strengthening reentry in state history.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper recognized the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) and the Morganton-based non-profit The Industrial Commons (TIC) as each organization won highly prestigious grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, Program.

Governor Cooper released the following statement in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day: