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Senator Natasha Marcus (Photo: NCGA) After an extended period of inactivity that’s left the state without a new budget for the first quarter...

Reporter Joe Killian (File Photo) For several years now, North Carolina’s Republican-dominated state legislature has been pursuing a determi...

Alexandra Sirota (File Photo)One of the very few silver linings to accompany the COVID-19 pandemic was a significant decline in American chi...

Two hog lagoons and a spray field (File photo: Lisa Sorg)It began as benign, but over the summer House Bill 600, the Regulatory Reform Act,...

The author pleads with Republican state lawmakers to stop twisting the words of redistricting committee witnesses who call an end to partisa...

The "Old Well" -- symbol of UNC- Chapel Hill. Photo: www.unc.eduWhen the General Assembly’s Republican majority revealed and passed a new bu...

Governor Roy Cooper announced Thursday he will veto SB 747. (Photo: Screengrab Gov. Cooper YouTube channel)The post Gov. Cooper does the rig...

NC General Assembly (Photo: Clayton Henkel) Gov. Cooper will let state budget bill become law without his signatureNorth Carolina Gov. Roy...

The author is looking forward with mixed emotions to a new reality TV show. Photo: Getty ImagesWhen I say I cannot WAIT for the Sept. 28 deb...

In September, the GOP-controlled Wisconsin state senate voted to oust Meagan Wolfe as the head of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Wolfe...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (Photo: Screengrab from video feed) Gov. Roy Cooper said he will allow the state’s new $30 billion budget to...

Firefighting foam, used at airports and military bases, has been identified as a source of toxic PFAS chemicals. (Photo courtesy of the U.S....

Rep. Ashton Wheeler Clemmons discusses school vouchers during budget debate Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. (Photo: Screenshot from livestream of...

Senate President Pro-Tem Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore. (File photos) The post Effort to keep lawmakers’ public records secret is...

NC Senate votes on $30 billion state budget Thursday. (Photo: Lynn Bonner)Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly used the state...

Jheanpiere Contreras, Genesis Contreras and Daniel Soto, who two days ago arrived from Venezuela after crossing the U.S. border from Mexico,...

Booking photos from the Fulton County conspiracy case charging Donald Trump and allies with trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election resul...

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. Photo: Senate website.The U.S. Senate confirmed a nominee for a high-ranking military post Wednesday...

Photo: Clayton HenkelThe post Secrecy, scheming, power grabs bespeak of a broken legislative leadership appeared first on NC Newsline.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Sept. 20, 2023. (Screenshot from committee webc...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., speaks at a press conference on her bill aimed at improving the lives of restaurant workers, on Sept. 19, 2023,...

Getty Images/iStockThe Republicans’ Frankenstein experiment that sutured promised Medicaid expansion in North Carolina to expanded legal gam...

U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks to reporters after a House Republican conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on S...

Senate Leader Phil Berger (Screengrab from NCGA video) Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) rarely loses a hand in the politi...

NC House Elections and Campaign Finance Reform committee discusses making cast vote records public. (Photo: Lynn Bonner)The state House vote...