State Sen. Kay Hagan, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, held her third veterans town hall meeting Thursday in Charlotte. She says veterans' affairs are a top priority.
Moore County Republican Joe Boylan was charged with DWI after he drove his pickup truck off a road and hit a tree in April.
A group that wants to make Pat McCrory the state's next governor created a campaign committee that can receive unlimited amounts of money from individuals.
A former prisoner of war who served with presidential candidate John McCain made his pitch on Tuesday for other N.C. veterans to support the Arizona senator’s campaign.
Supporters of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain will rally Tuesday around the state. Sites include the legislative building in Raleigh and Freedom Park in Charlotte.
After more than 150 days in session, state lawmakers prepared to adjourn their short session Friday. Lawmakers said their biggest accomplishment was the passage of a $21 billion state budget.
Energy, education and the economy were a few of the topics covered at a gubernatorial candidate forum in Asheville on Friday.
The North Carolina House is asking the Senate to pass a bill that criticizes a federal law requiring states to make their driver's licenses more secure.
The state House Thursday approved a plan designed to keep guns out of the hands of the dangerously mentally ill. The bill now heads to Gov. Mike Easley for his signature.
The Democratic governor signed the nearly $21.4 billion spending plan for the current fiscal year into law on Wednesday, two days ahead of a constitutional deadline.
State treasurer Richard Moore is sending an e-mail to supporters urging them to support the lieutenant governor in her bid to win the state's top job in the November election.
Lawmakers set to debate a plan which would boost payments to the erroneously convicted as they make a frenzied push to wrap up unfinished business for the year.
State lawmakers could soon be making some changes to North Carolina's Alcoholic Beverage Control system. Critics worry it could lead to privately owned liquor stores.
Currently there is no law on the books that directly specifically deals with gangs. The legislation still needs final votes from the state House and Senate to change that.
President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling and pressured Congress to do the same Monday. In North Carolina, the issue is split squarly down party lines.
Barack Obama's campaign says a satirical New Yorker magazine cover showing the Democratic presidential candidate dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist is "tasteless and offensive."
The General Assembly is using a 1991 court opinion that allowed North Carolina governments to approve certain types of borrowing without voter approval.
Nader's name won't be on the ballot in North Carolina this November, but he's planning to petition the State Board of Elections so that he can run as a write-in candidate.
Former presidential Press Secretary Tony Snow is being remembered in the state as a man who never lost touch with his roots. He died Saturday morning from colon cancer.
U.S. Rep. Howard Coble of the 6th District set a record Friday as the longest serving Republican in the history of the North Carolina Congressional Delegation.
State lawmakers could ban software that allows people to buy hundreds -- if not thousands -- of tickets to concerts or games in the matter of seconds, often at the expense of average fans.
North Carolina's ban on ticket scalping wouldn't apply to people who resell event tickets online as part of a measure that's cleared a House committee.
The UNC System Board of Governors wants to know if N.C. State broke the rules when it gave first lady Mary Easley an $80,000 pay raise.
From the drought to gang issues, some big ticket items remain on lawmakers’ plates. They are trying to finish up by next week and won't be back until January.
Subprime mortgage holders struggling to make their payments may receive some help under a plan advancing in the state House.
L.F. Eason III, a longtime state employee at the Standards Laboratory, has chosen to retire instead of lowering flags to half-staff to honor former Sen. Jesse Helms.
The state Legislature gave tentative approval to a $21 billion spending plan for this fiscal year. The House and Senate both voted Monday in favor of a plan negotiated by democrats.
More than a week ago, law enforcement netted more than two-dozen suspected MS-13 gang members. authorities say it’s a big win for the state and country.
Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on Friday. He was 86.
North Carolina legislators have reached an agreement on a $21 billion state budget, which will be voted on next week. A top House negotiator said everything has been settled.
Two Democratic Party officials have been charged in a case involving kidnapping and sexual assault. Police say the arrested man locked another man in a dog cage for hours.
The trips to France, Italy, Russia and Estonia in 2007 and 2008 were expensive -- costing nearly $280,000 -- but Gov. Mike Easley says they were vital to promote tourism.
Gov. Mike Easley's wife took a pair of overseas trips in the past two years to visit museums in Europe - trips that cost taxpayers $109,000.
North Carolina House and Senate leaders are optimistic about getting a budget to Gov. Mike Easley this week. But it's not clear if Easley will like the spending plan he's given.
Insurance companies are looking to raise a cap on car insurance costs and the North Carolina Department of Insurance argues that rates should drop. Both sides met for a hearing Monday.