Republican state Supreme Court candidate Sarah Stevens said judges and justices phoned her “frequently” when she was a state lawmaker.

For the first time in almost 30 years, the candidates vying to represent North Carolina in the U.S. Senate won’t meet on a debate stage. Here’s what our reporters and editors would ask them if we had ...

U.S. Rep. Don Davis is in the middle of a rousing speech about reining in gas and housing costs and bringing federal dollars to Eastern North Carolina when he suddenly turns to Cassandra Conover. “You ...

Now Spruill is among potentially hundreds of North Carolina residents who will receive payments for such hassles. Tyler Technologies, the company behind eCourts, has agreed to pay up to $1.5 million ...

U.S. Rep. Don Davis greets early voters at the Craven County Board of Elections office in New Bern. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) ...

Anna Massoglia is a North Carolina native and investigative journalist based in the Washington, D.C. area. She is editor of MuckRock, founder of Influence Brief, and previously led the editorial team ...

Justin Burke projected his voice over the whir of a giant fan inside the exhibition center at the Columbus County Agricultural Fair. “So, we’re trying to raise the minimum wage,” Burke, who is a paid ...

Michael Lee can’t be sure, but he suspects he’s the first North Carolina Senate majority leader who was a college cheerleader. Lee cheered as an undergraduate student at the University of North ...

When Shiva Rajbhandari arrived at UNC-Chapel Hill three years ago, he quickly ran into a problem. “I did not have a banking option besides these big banks,” Rajbhandari told The Assembly. Soon, though ...

Through the first five days of early voting, hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians showed up to the polls, according to data from the State Board of Elections. More than 733,000 ballots had been ...