RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina General Assembly annual work period that stretched 14 months while a state budget was finalized and district maps were redrawn twice essentially concluded Thursday with passage of a clean-up bill and backing a resolution ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly is slowing down this week as lawmakers prepare for budget negotiations and action on other measures during August. The state Senate plans no recorded floor votes until next week, while House leaders ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly is returning to Raleigh two weeks after meeting briefly to elect chamber leaders for the next two years. The Republican-controlled House and Senate reconvenes on Wednesday to begin what will become the ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Republicans in one General Assembly chamber stayed late June 25 to put several proposed constitutional amendments on North Carolina ballots in November, including those to require photo identification to vote and to change how judicial vacancies are filled. The ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed seven bills just before a June 25 deadline, deciding to block Republican proposals to alter early in-person voting and restrict nuisance litigation that neighbors of big livestock operations could file in North Carolina. ...

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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) Transgender plaintiffs who think the compromise that replaced North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill” is still discriminatory are heading back to court. A federal judge will hear arguments June 25 from lawyers representing Republican legislative leaders who say the case ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes add more uncertainty to already unusual state elections this fall for judges and in races where new political parties want to field candidates. Cooper announced June 15 – less than three hours before a ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Spending and policy adjustments made by Republicans to North Carolina’s state budget next year appears headed to becoming law despite Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto. The House scheduled an override vote June 12 on Cooper’s veto of the nearly ...

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  As North Carolina’s short legislative session begins May 16, some legislators say they are working to pass bills that would substantially change how the judiciary works. While the priority of the session appears to be making technical corrections and ...

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Fearing that the state would hemorrhage hundreds of millions of dollars after losing a legal fight over the Map Act, lawmakers pushed through a bill with a last-minute provision that drastically reduces the interest that gets folded into the compensation residents receive when the North Carolina Department of Transportation takes their land.

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