North Carolina state Rep. Joe John, a longtime Raleigh lawmaker and former judge, died on Wednesday. John had only just ...

Base rates for North Carolina homeowners' insurance premiums will increase on average by about 15% by mid-2026, state leaders ...

Roy Cooper’s campaign for governor ... Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan is the Capitol Bureau Chief for The News & Observer, leading coverage of the legislative and executive branches in North Carolina ...

▪ Seth Dearmin, chief of staff: Stein is keeping his chief of staff from the N.C. Department of Justice, when Stein was attorney general. Dearmin had been chief of staff at DOJ since 2017, and before ...

The provisions are similar to those in an executive order issued by then-Gov. Roy Cooper in 2022 ... Dr. Katherine Farris, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, said ...

Gov. Josh Stein on Thursday ordered state agencies not to cooperate with investigations into medical professionals who provide legal abortions.

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to issue a series of executive orders during his first days back in the White House, ...

Two teenagers arrested in Durham face a litany of charges after a multi-agency investigation stemming from an incident in ...

The legal dispute between Guilford County Board of Commissioners and Trillium Health Resources, the state's largest ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's latest Democratic governor was sworn into office on Wednesday, as Josh Stein succeeded Roy Cooper in a ... from Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby.