As both parties gear up for bruising battles, the top five Senate races during the 2026 election are estimated to rack up ...

Democratic Gov. Josh Stein ran his first Council of State meeting on Tuesday, shifting two chairs up to the head of the ...

Roy Cooper to challenge Tillis ... Brian Kemp (R-GA) to challenge the Democratic senator. And Georgia’s chief executive has been receptive to the idea, Scott said. “We are looking for a ...

Hillsborough hosts SRCC meeting to discuss reintegration of formerly incarcerated individuals, focusing on the Reentry 2030 ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on ...

Gov. Josh Stein is asking the N.C. General Assembly for $1 billion in Helene storm recovery money this spring to help Western ...

Roy Cooper requested ... Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan is the Capitol Bureau Chief for The News & Observer, leading coverage of the legislative and executive branches in North Carolina with a focus ...

Both Democrats and Republicans in the North Carolina state House support raising the benefits paid out to unemployed workers ...

He’s expected to begin his term by issuing upwards of 100 executive orders related to ... passed a law and then overrode a veto from Gov. Roy Cooper to require sheriffs in the state to cooperate ...

Two teenagers arrested in Durham face a litany of charges after a multi-agency investigation stemming from an incident in ...

Laura Hogshead, the chief operating officer of the state ... Pryor Gibson, who is deputy legislative counsel to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and was previously assigned to monitor NCORR, has ...