WASHINGTON - Retiring Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis is urging party leaders to reassess where they spend campaign money as North Carolina's open Senate race enters its final five weeks.
North Carolina's new public-workforce law takes effect Oct. 1, beginning changes to state hiring, leave, compensation, grievances and agency authority.
WASHINGTON - Federal election records show outside groups disclosed $551,425 in independent expenditures tied to North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District in a group of filings highlighted Thursday, adding to national attention on the race between Democratic U.S. Rep. Don Davis and Republican challenger Laurie Buckhout.
RALEIGH - North Carolina Supreme Court candidates Anita Earls and Sarah Stevens are presenting sharply different views of precedent, legislative power and judicial recusals ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
RALEIGH - A new Opinion Diagnostics poll commissioned by Common Cause North Carolina shows Democrat Roy Cooper leading Republican Michael Whatley by 10 percentage points in the state's U.S. Senate race.
RALEIGH - FactCheck.org says a Republican super PAC ad in North Carolina's U.S. Senate race gives a misleading account of a backlog of untested sexual-assault evidence kits during Roy Cooper's time as attorney general.
RALEIGH - North Carolina’s top election official said Friday the state plans to use a federal citizenship-verification database for voter-list maintenance after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted restrictions that had blocked the expanded system.
RALEIGH - North Carolina voters will decide three proposed constitutional amendments Nov. 3 covering voter identification, the state income-tax ceiling and limits on local property-tax increases.
HIGH POINT - A High Point University poll finds Democrats leading Republicans 48%-44% on a statewide generic U.S. House ballot among likely North Carolina voters.
HIGH POINT - A new High Point University poll puts Democrats ahead on generic ballots for both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly among likely voters.