About 4 million federal workers, from FBI agents to Bureau of Prisons guards to U.S. Food and Drug Administration workers, are to be vaccinated by Nov. 22 under the president’s executive order aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus. And some resistant workers are digging in, filing lawsuits and protesting what they say is unfair overreach by the White House.
Hidden Valley residents have filed lawsuits against the city of Charlotte. They claim the proposed redistricting maps are unconstitutional and racially biased.
The attorneys general of 11 states have filed a lawsuit challenging a vaccine mandate for employers issued by President Joe Biden's administration.
Critical race theory has become a lightning rod for Republicans and an issue in the Virginia governor's race. But what exactly is it?
Republican Glenn Youngkin has won Virginia’s governor’s race, a major political turnabout in a state that had been trending increasingly blue.
An historic election night victory in Kannapolis. The city has elected the first African-American woman to ever serve on city council. Jeanne Dixon won one of three seats up for grabs on Tuesday night.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster wants to spend the last $17 million of his COVID-19 education relief money to fully pay for anyone to go to a technical college for two years to train to enter high demand jobs.
Critics of President Joe Biden have come up with a cryptic new phrase to insult the Democratic president. It's “Let's Go Brandon.”
President Joe Biden offered a public apology to a U.N. climate conference over his predecessor Donald Trump’s move to pull the U.S. from the Paris accord.
Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is among three top Republicans engaged in a hotly contested 2022 U.S. Senate primary.
A sheriff’s officer has accused former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping a woman in an investigation stemming from the scandal that drove him from office earlier this year.
Republican North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson says he’s fairly certain he will run for governor in 2024, rather than seek a second term in his current post.
North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and his brother-in-law are under investigation for insider trading.
Former President Donald Trump says he’s launching a new media company with its own social media platform nine months after being expelled from social media for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
South Carolina State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman announced Wednesday that she will not pursue re-election in 2022.
The United States has issued its first passport with an “X” gender designation — a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who don’t identify as male or female.
The ex-chairman of a local hospital board who resigned his position last year when his social media postings early during the COVID-19 pandemic got public attention will serve out the term of a Gaston County legislator who died.
The first Black U.S. Secretary of State and former Joint Chiefs chairman Colin Powell has died due to COVID-19 complications Monday morning, his family said on Facebook. He was 84.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper said Wednesday that Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson “does not speak for North Carolina,” a reference to comments that Robinson made about sex education in public schools that critics say plainly disparaged LGBTQ people.
It's clear Jeanne Dixon has a passion for the Kannapolis community. She's spent most of her career in public service and noticed not many people in municipal government looked like her.
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