Elections No concession yet in key House race Another N.C. House candidate where the vote tallies are close said Thursday that he’s not yet ready to concede defeat.
Budget & Taxes DPS says it’s facing major staffing shortages Secretary of Public Safety Eddie Buffaloe sounded the alarm Thursday on major staffing vacancies facing the state’s juvenile detention facilities...
Elections Five takeaways from Tuesday’s election results Now that I’ve had some sleep and lots more caffeine after the election results came in, here’s some thoughts on...
Health Care Legislative leaders discuss possible action on tax cuts, redistricting, abortion You must be logged in to view this content.
Elections Meet your other new state legislators There will be a lot of new legislators in January, and because many of them weren’t in competitive districts, odds...
Elections What the legislature’s new power dynamic means for 2023 t’s safe to say North Carolina saw the expected “Red Wave” in Tuesday’s election. But it was the sort of...
Elections Ad Watch: Business issues surface in attacks New mailers in a close Wilson House race claim that Republican candidate Ken Fontenot “took cash” from “out-of-state billionaires” who...
Elections NC’s strangest legislative race One of the weirdest legislative races this year has been Guilford County’s House District 59, where redistricting put House Majority...
Elections Ad Watch: Is Sen. Sydney Batch an ‘independent’? Democrats running in highly competitive suburban races this year are going to great lengths to paint themselves as moderates.
Education Bell to join Cooper’s UNC commission House Majority Leader John Bell has agreed to serve on Gov. Roy Cooper’s new commission exploring possible changes to UNC...
Budget & Taxes EPA awards funding for air quality monitoring North Carolina will get about $1 million of $53.4 million grants announced Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency to monitor...
Elections Democrats post $11 million fundraising haul Yesterday we reported on the N.C. Republican Party’s third-quarter fundraising and spending. As of Thursday, we have the N.C. Democratic...
Elections Ranking N.C. Senate races by the money spent Which N.C. Senate districts will be the most competitive on Tuesday? For an idea, we can look to how the...
Elections Campaign Spotlight: District 18 I’ll admit this district wasn’t on my list of competitive seats until I started seeing campaign ads in recent weeks.
Education Cooper creates commission to consider UNC board changes Ever since the legislature created a board to oversee the state’s university system in the 1970s, it has given itself...