North Carolina

Climate Cheri Beasley sits at a table in a restaurant with potential supporters in Durham, NC.
Climate With Abortion, Voting Rights At Stake, Here’s What You Need to Know About NC’s US Senate Primary

The race is shaping up to be a battle between Trump and everyone else in North Carolina’s Republican Party. 

Staff Reports Staff Reports May 9, 2022 4:30 pm EDT
Elections Sen. Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, is in charge of the GOP strategy for winning the US Senate. His plan for raising taxes and potentially sunsetting federal programs like Social Security and Medicare is massively unpopular, although most people don't seem to know much about it, according to recent polling. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Elections EXCLUSIVE: The Massively Unpopular GOP Plan to Raise Taxes and End Social Security and Medicare

The man in charge of winning back the Senate for Republicans introduced a plan that could impact millions of North Carolinians. Unfortunately, the public doesn’t know much about it. 

Keya Vakil Keya Vakil May 5, 2022 12:37 pm EDT
Commentary In this 2014 file photo, women protest anti-abortion rights laws passed by North Carolina Republicans. With the US Supreme Court expected to undo Roe V. Wade, elections for the state legislature and the governor's office could be enormous in NC. (Shutterstock)
Commentary Abortion Would Still Be Legal in NC if Roe Falls—But Marginalized Communities Will Suffer

Future access to abortion rights in North Carolina will very likely hinge on who wins the state legislature and the governor’s office. 

Billy Ball Billy Ball May 3, 2022 1:26 pm EDT
Jobs State leaders and labor advocates gathered in Raleigh in April to remember the 189 documented deaths that happened on the job in NC in 2020. That's the last year in which the full total is known. (Photo: NC State AFL-CIO)
Jobs 189 NC Workers Died on the Job in 2020. Here’s How Labor Leaders Honored Them.

NC’s Labor Department and union leaders pledged to work together to improve worker safety and hold negligent companies responsible. 

Michael McElroy Michael McElroy May 2, 2022 4:19 pm EDT
Education Teachers dance during a protest outside the state capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina on May, 16 2018. Education funding has been a major concern in North Carolina in the last decade after the GOP-controlled legislature handed down steep cuts. (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP)
Education These Are the Congressional Candidates NC’s Biggest Teachers Group Is Endorsing

North Carolina’s public schools faced deep cuts under GOP leadership in the last decade. Naturally, the NC Association of Educators isn’t picking them.

Staff Reports Staff Reports April 29, 2022 2:37 pm EDT

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Lactation certificate program student Sierra Bizzell, left, demonstrates a technique with a breast model for program director Janiya Mitnaul Williams March 17. The Cone Health Women’s MedCenter clinic serves women from all backgrounds in East Greensboro. (Photo by James Parker/NC A&T University) Education NC’s Biggest HBCU Is Boosting Breastfeeding and Survival Rates for Black Babies
Teachers dance during a protest outside the state capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina on May, 16 2018. Education funding has been a major concern in North Carolina in the last decade after the GOP-controlled legislature handed down steep cuts. (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP) Education These Are the Congressional Candidates NC’s Biggest Teachers Group Is Endorsing
Early voting begins Thursday and lasts through May 14 for North Carolina's 2022 primary elections. (Image via Shutterstock) Elections Early Voting Kicks Off Thursday in North Carolina. Here’s What You Need to Know
The Great Smokey Mountains of North Carolina. (Image via Shutterstock) North Carolina Each of North Carolina’s National Parks and Why You Should Visit One Right Now
Elections Pro-Trump supporters protest outside of the North Carolina GOP convention in Greensboro in May 2021. Nationally, incidences of harassment and intimidation against election officials have been escalating as supporters of the former president push for recounts and insist that widespread voter fraud, not the will of the people, ousted Trump from the White House.
Elections NC GOP Leader Threatened Surry County Elections Official Over 2020 Votes

The NC Board of Elections says a Republican leader in Surry County threatened an elections official to gain illegal access to 2020 votes.

Staff Reports Staff Reports April 26, 2022 2:23 pm EDT
Commentary There's a housing crisis for LGBTQ youth. (Shutterstock)
Commentary There’s a Housing Crisis for LGBTQ+ Youth

Federal nondiscrimination protections would go a long way toward helping.

Sarah Mikhail Sarah Mikhail April 26, 2022 11:07 am EDT