RALEIGH — State Senator Dan Bishop won Tuesday’s Republican primary in a special election for a congressional seat vacant since last year’s race was deemed tainted by fraud. Bishop topped nine other GOP candidates seeking […]
RALEIGH — Republicans are deciding Tuesday who should carry their party’s banner in a high-profile special election for a North Carolina congressional seat vacant since last year’s election was deemed tainted by fraud. Republican and […]
RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper is recovering after surgery to fix a herniated disc that his office says was causing him lower back pain. Cooper’s office said the elective procedure occurred Monday at UNC Rex […]
RALEIGH — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a measure passed by the General Assembly that addresses a doctor’s responsibilities if an abortion results in an infant born alive. Cooper announced his decision Thursday — […]
RALEIGH — Voters will soon begin to pick from among over two dozen candidates who have filed to run for an eastern North Carolina congressional seat empty since last month’s death of GOP Rep. Walter […]
RALEIGH — North State Journal caught up with North Carolina’s most influential “invisible man,” Jim Blaine, for a chat about some of the current political news. On the 3rd Congressional seat recently left open by […]
RALEIGH — The night before the monthly meeting of the North Carolina Council of State, Gov. Roy Cooper postponed a vote on the proposed move of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) from Raleigh to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The last Democrat to win a presidential election, Barack Obama, ran in 2012 on a platform of raising taxes for top earners to nearly 40 percent. Now a new crop of Democratic […]
TARBORO — A longtime North Carolina Democratic legislator and budget writer who focused on education, technology and the rural economy has died. Nine-term Rep. Joe Tolson of Edgecombe County died Sunday at Vidant Edgecombe Hospital […]
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s Lt. Gov. Dan Forest has taken another step toward running for governor in 2020. Forest announced Monday that he has formed an “exploratory” committee to seek the GOP nomination, releasing a […]
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