RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The North Carolina State Board of Elections’ top administrator asked a powerful legislator on Thursday to retract a comment that he made suggesting this month’s results were being manipulated, saying it could lead to threats against local election workers. You are a top leader of our state government. What you say matters, Karen Brinson Bell, ...

More than a dozen water systems in North Carolina are still impaired eight weeks after they were damaged by the remnants of Hurricane Helene. People are adjusting to life without drinking water.

Lawmakers move to limit powers of the governor, attorney general, and schools superintendent.

"Ballot dumps" in Pennsylvania, California, North Carolina, Alaska and Wisconsin show election officials are improperly flipping" down-ballot seats for Democrats.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) A bear cub, one of two pulled from a tree as a person posed for a photo, has been returned to the wild, according to North Carolina wildlife officials.The bear was released last month in an undisclosed, remote mountain area in western North Carolina, the state’s Wildlife Resources Commission announced Wednesday. A brief video of the release shows the cu...

The newly named White Lightning Studios hopes to capitalize on the state's 25 percent tax rebate.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The top official for North Carolina’s efforts to rebuild communities after natural disasters is no longer working in the position just a few days after a scathing rebuke of her work from GOP state lawmakers. Laura Hogshead, who served as the office’s chief operating officer for the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency since 2018, was no ...

“Outgoing North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), who lost his bid for governor this month, said he is still deciding what his next step will be,” WRAL reports. “But […]

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina approved wide-ranging legislation Wednesday that was billed as another round of hurricane relief, but...

Calendar TODAY VOLLEYBALL PacWest women: Hawaii Pacific vs. Chaminade, 6 p.m. at McCabe Gym. FRIDAY BASKETBALL College men: North Carolina vs. Hawaii, 7:30 p.m. at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center. College women: Bank of...

In western North Carolina, the cold is creeping in. Autumn usually gives way to winter early in the mountains, but this year it comes at a precarious time, when many residents are still suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) North Carolina Republican legislators gave final approval Wednesday to a series of political power moves that would weaken the incoming governor and other Democratic elected officials in the ninth-largest state. They’re contained in a massive bill sprinkled with a new round of Hurricane Helene relief provisions and rushed through a lame-duck General Assembly sess...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature completed on Wednesday its override of Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of legislation that both locates funds for private school scholarship grants for recipients of all incomes and directs local she...

Two elite runners competing in the Manchester Road Race Nov. 28 had harrowing tales to tell of the historic, deadly flooding in North Carolina where they live and train.