SANFORD - A Lee County voter filed a complaint Oct. 9 with the North Carolina State Ethics Commission alleging that state House candidate Charles M. Taylor failed to disclose several real-estate and business interests on required ethics forms.
WASHINGTON - No Going Back PAC reported about $124,624 in new direct-mail spending tied to North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, split evenly between support for Republican Laurie Buckhout and opposition to Democratic Rep. Don Davis.
RALEIGH - A Trafalgar Group poll released Monday shows Democrat Roy Cooper leading Republican Michael Whatley by 7.9 percentage points in North Carolina's 2026 U.S. Senate race.
New federal reports show two outside groups disclosed $821,002.04 in independent expenditures opposing Don Davis in NC-1 and Jennifer Balkcom in NC-11.
RALEIGH - City voters will decide two separate $101.5 million bond questions Nov. 3, one for affordable housing and one for transportation projects.
RALEIGH - President Donald Trump’s joke that additional Hurricane Helene recovery money could depend on Republican Michael Whatley winning North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race is receiving renewed scrutiny as disaster relief enters the midterm campaign.
RALEIGH — Gov. Josh Stein signed a temporary suspension of North Carolina’s 41-cent-per-gallon motor-fuel tax, turning a bipartisan affordability measure into law through Nov. 30.
GREENVILLE - An East Carolina University poll released Thursday shows Democrat Roy Cooper leading Republican Michael Whatley 50% to 43% among likely North Carolina voters, while the undecided share fell to 6%.
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday temporarily paused a Fourth Circuit order requiring the FCC to rule by Friday on a political ad-rate challenge that includes North Carolina Senate candidate Roy Cooper.
GREENVILLE - Sabato's Crystal Ball moved North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District from Safe Republican to Likely Republican, citing outside support for Democrat Raymond Smith and a district made less Republican by the state's latest congressional map.
RALEIGH - An AARP survey found Democrat Roy Cooper leading Republican Michael Whatley statewide while voters age 50 and older favored Whatley, highlighting a sharp age split in North Carolina's U.S. Senate race.
SALISBURY - A new Catawba College-YouGov survey found Democrat Roy Cooper leading Republican Michael Whatley by 12 percentage points among likely North Carolina voters in the 2026 U.S. Senate race.
