The Inaugural Committee in North Carolina announced the inauguration of Governor Josh Stein has been canceled due to inclement weather. They said Governor Stein will deliver his inaugural address virtually instead.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's public inauguration ceremony scheduled for Saturday for new Gov. Josh Stein and other statewide elected officials has been canceled because of approaching winter weather, the state inaugural committee announced Wednesday.

Josh Stein is the governor of North Carolina, pledging his oath on Wednesday morning alongside his wife Anna. Stein, 58, succeeds 67-year-old Roy Cooper and continues the pattern of all but three men holding the position being Democrats since 1900.

Governor Stein of North Carolina inaugurated his new cabinet, emphasizing their readiness to enhance the state's safety and prosperity.

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North Carolina’s latest Democratic governor was sworn in to office Wednesday, as Josh Stein succeeded Roy Cooper once again in a top elected position for the second time in eight years. During a small ceremony inside the old Senate chamber of the 1840 Capitol building,

The New Year means newly-elected state leaders have officially taken office. During his swearing-in ceremony in Raleigh on Wednesday morning, Governor Josh Stein said that he would reject politics of division and that North Carolina will go further when the state works together.

Stein has been the attorney general for the past eight years, following Cooper in the elected law-enforcement post that Cooper himself had held for the 16 years previous.

Inauguration events scheduled for North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein this weekend have been canceled due to weather conditions, state officials said.