An ethics panel had concluded the Western North Carolina Republican behaved inappropriately toward two young female staffers.

As Anita Earls runs for re-election to the state Supreme Court, here's what her dissents tell us about her judicial philosophy.

In N.C. and nationwide, boys are more likely to be held back than girls. Black boys are retained at more than twice the rate of white boys.

Nash County is home to three state legislative races that could make or break a GOP supermajority in North Carolina.

The GOP congressional candidate bet on her own campaign, according to a settlement agreement with the online prediction ...

The Senate candidate won praise for declaring three players innocent as AG in 2007. Critics wish he’d done more for other defendants.

For more than a year, research universities across the country were on red alert over the Trump administration’s drastic proposed cuts to federal research funding. So it’s no surprise that University ...

It was a humid night in July, and the patrons of Atomic Clock Brewing looked at me like I’d lost my mind when I asked if they knew who Dolly Parton was. Of course they knew Dolly: her charity, her ...

Update: Whatley told The Assembly after an event on Saturday that he’d be willing to participate in a Senate debate. North Carolina’s leading contenders for U.S. Senate haven’t agreed to participate ...

North Carolina lawmakers don’t expect to return to Raleigh for votes until after the November election. But a few of them have less-than-stellar attendance records so far this session. The N.C.