About three dozen municipalities β Charlotte and Greensboro among them β would see scheduled fall elections moved to early next year in legislation approved unanimously by the House on Wednesday that anticipates delayed redistricting.
The White House dropped Trump-era executive orders intended to ban the popular apps TikTok and WeChat and will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks with software applications tied to China, officials said Wednesday.
U.S. Representative Ted Budd is riding after a key endorsement from former President Trump. While others running arenβt that happy, count former Gov. Pat McCrory among them, others in the GOP establishment wonder if Trump is a help or hindrance. WCCB Political Contributor, Mary C. Curtis weighs in.
Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper is dropping hints about possible plans for a new stadium. He says a dome is out, because of COVID. And he's open to building the new stadium in Uptown.
The funding dispute between the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board and Mecklenburg County Commissioners is now heading to mediation. The two sides couldn't work things out during a joint meeting held Monday.
Donald Trump on Saturday pushed Republicans to support candidates who are loyal to him in next yearβs midterm elections as the former president launched a new more active phase of his post presidency.
Former President Donald Trump is back on the political stage. He was the keynote speaker at the North Carolina Republican State Convention on Saturday.
Donald Trump is coming to the Republican Party's annual convention in North Carolina, a state whose electoral votes he won in 2016 and 2020. The former president is scheduled to address more than 1,200 convention-goers Saturday in Greenville.
The Justice Department said Saturday that it no longer will secretly obtain reportersβ records during leak investigations, a policy shift that abandons a practice decried by news organizations and press freedom groups.
Facebook said it will suspend former President Donald Trumpβs accounts for two years following its finding that he stoked violence ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection.
Since the countryβs founding, no Black woman has ever served as a governor in the United States. But South Carolina Democratic state Sen. Mia McLeod says sheβs the person who can change that, despite the fact that Democrats havenβt been elected to a statewide office there in 15 years.
President Joe Biden honored Americaβs war dead at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day by laying a wreath at the hallowed burial ground and extolling the sacrifices of the fallen for the pursuit of democracy.
How race and history are taught in schools is the latest flashpoint in the ongoing "culture wars." It comes as states, including North Carolina, consider laws limiting the use of "critical race theory" in education.
Governors and legislatures in Republican-controlled states across the country are moving to define what race-related ideas can be taught in public schools and colleges, a reaction to the nationβs racial reckoning after last yearβs police killing of George Floyd.
Asking dogs to follow their noses wonβt work anymore in states that have legalized marijuana.
Charlotte, Raleigh and roughly three dozen other cities and towns in North Carolina would shift this fallβs municipal elections to early next year in legislation advancing in the state Senate to address Census Bureau delays.
The budget battle rages on between county leaders and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Commissioners are moving forward with plans to withhold $56 million from the district over concerns about failing schools.
One year after his death, George Floyd is being remembered in Charlotte and around the world, as activists continue to demand racial justice and an end to police brutality.
Legislation to establish an independent commission investigating the attack on the Capitol on January 6th will likely die in the Senate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sending strong signals that House Democrats will go it alone if the commission vote fails in the Senate.
Conservative lawmakers nationwide introduced a flurry of anti-LGBTQ bills this year, but no stateβs political leaders have gone further than Tennessee in enacting new laws targeting transgender people.
