As Vice President Kamala Harris steps into her new role campaigning for president, the frenzy over who her potential running mate could be is underway. A possibility on her list is North Carolina’s two-term Democratic governor, Roy Cooper. Cooper has served in the highest seat while Republicans maintain a supermajority...

Vice President Kamala Harris returns to North Carolina Thursday, the same day former President Donald Trump is expected to give his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention after becoming the party’s nominee for president. Thursday’s visit to Fayetteville marks Harris’ second visit to the Tar Heel State in two...

Democratic delegates from North Carolina unanimously endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s presidential nominee Sunday after a whirlwind of political maneuvering in the hours after President Joe Biden abandoned his reelection campaign. Biden said Sunday afternoon on social media that he won’t seek reelection and endorsed Harris...

When the Democratic Party convenes for its national convention on Aug. 19, it will get to select its presidential candidate, primary results notwithstanding. And if Vice President Kamala Harris is nominated to replace President Joe Biden atop the ticket, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) must act accordingly...

Republican officials named in a defamation lawsuit surrounding failed efforts to bring new casinos to North Carolina are asking for a specific judge to hear the case — one who has ruled in favor of casinos before and has worked for one of the state’s top lawmakers. On July 12,...

A North Carolina retirees’ civil rights advocacy group didn’t have standing to challenge the state’s requirement that voters live in their voting precinct 30 days prior to an election in order to vote, a federal court said. The Alliance for Retired Americans said that the requirement violated Section 202 of...

A decade ago, Jordan Hennessy was a 19-year-old state legislative aide making roughly $33,000 a year in the office of a Republican state senator representing Dare County. At 29, Hennessy now helps run two distinctly different businesses that were created just as lawmakers in the Republican-dominated state legislature awarded a...

The TCPA remains the most dangerous statute out there and the biggest cash cow in American history for the plaintiff’s bar. And it isn’t slowing down as news of another 7 figure settlement is out today. A Blue Cross entity in North Carolina just agreed to pay $1.6MM along with...

No dog parks. No golf. No soccer or football. No child care centers, apartments or homes. No community gardens unless they’re in raised beds. The list of forbidden uses on 10 contaminated acres containing 46,000 tons of coal ash in Chapel Hill is nearly as long as what is allowed:...

A new campaign is launching to help give North Carolina public schools a boost. Recently the North Carolina School Boards Association has announced a new campaign called “Public Education Does the Public Good”. The campaign aims to highlight that a healthy public-school benefit everyone and even has an animated video....

In a state expected to help decide the presidency, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did little to quell speculation on President Biden’s path forward as the Democratic nominee to a room full of North Carolina Democrats on Saturday. Pelosi addressed more than 900 people at the North Carolina Democratic Party...

The North Carolina State Board of Elections won’t have data on new party registrations for “We the People” until mid-August, but it’s already clear the new political party’s certification heightens the tumult across the political landscape. The nation is grappling with the horror of an assassination attempt on former President...

With Election Day approaching, North Carolina has a problem. The state is rapidly losing county elections directors. In the past five years, the state says North Carolina’s 100 counties have seen 61 election director changes. That turnover could have an impact on voters when they go to cast their ballots....

North Carolina has a large delegation at the Republican National Convention this week. Among the group of 74 officially casting their votes for Donald Trump as president is a Wake County teenager. Cardinal Gibbons High School student Kelcey Shull, 17, is the youngest North Carolina delegate. Cardinal Gibbons High School...

Less than a week after accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, former President Donald Trump will hold a rally Wednesday in Charlotte. Trump, who chose Ohio Sen. JD Vance to be his running mate, will speak at 6 p.m. at Bojangles Coliseum. The rally will take place...