A week before the election, I wrote that North Carolina was the prototypical “state in play,” featuring competitive races for president and a dozen other statewide offices as well as a spirited ...

I left North Carolina after Election Day upset about Donald Trump's win but knowing my home state still has some blue left.

Welcome to the governor’s race edition of our Under the Dome politics newsletter. I’m Dawn Vaughan, The News & Observer’s Capitol bureau chief. With Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein’s decisive ...

National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) is seeking a second term as head of the House GOP’s ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) is facing a key decision on whom to tap to fill the term of Vice President-elect Vance as jockeying ...

The campaigns for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris courted Lumbee voters ahead of the election, with both pledging support for ...

Missouri voted for abortion rights, paid sick leave and a higher minimum wage, and also for Republican politicians who oppose ...

“Ike” was not a particularly partisan figure and might have been nominated by either party. But he was nonetheless the first ...

Trump has repeatedly said he won’t “cut one cent” from Social Security or raise the retirement age. The official Republican ...

By Tom Campbell There’s no other way to describe the General Election than to say Republicans enjoyed a stunning victory, winning the presidency, both houses of congress and a large number of state ...

Opponents of offshore wind energy projects expect President-elect Donald Trump to kill an industry he has vowed to end on the ...

Let’s take concrete action to protect the millions of US residents facing the threat of Trump’s deportation crosshairs.