Democrat Maggie Hassan was sworn in on Thursday as New Hampshire's third woman governor. Hassan said she plans to work closely with state lawmakers, i...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A North Carolina state representative says she voted mistakenly to override the governor's veto of a bill to allow the shale gas expl...

North Carolina's Republican-controlled state legislature voted Monday night to override Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of a state budget that strip...

WASHINGTON -- There are currently two Democratic female governors in the entire nation. After November, there may be zero. While four Republican fe...

North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D) took the undesirable title of nation's least popular governor this week, according to a poll from Public Policy Pol...

CORRECTION: This story embarrassingly took Bev Perdue's spoof Twitter account at face value -- here is her real one -- to produce the following: No...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months befo...

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Friday it was "petty" for North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue to insult Mississippi while bemo...

North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D) said Friday that she was embarrassed by voters' passage of an anti-gay marriage amendment to the state's constituti...

In an extraordinary act of political theater, the state Democratic chairman described and dismissed outright the sexual harassment claims against the ...

A former staffer accused North Carolina's state Democratic Party executive director of showing him a picture of male genitals, caressing his leg and d...

David Parker, chairman of the Democratic Party in North Carolina, is expected to step down amid allegations that he helped facilitate a plot to cover ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The key battleground state of North Carolina is still within President Barack Obama's grasp, despite Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue's...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Beverly Perdue said Thursday she will not seek re-election because she fears a fight with Republicans over public education...

North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue, a Democrat, signaled on Friday that she'll oppose passage of a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marri...

It was a tale of two visions of government. And when politicians from both parties came through Charlotte with plans on what it's going to take to get...

Thom Goolsby, a Republican from New Hanover County, sent out an e-mail to his supporters, in which he call President Obama's "socialist policies" a great threat to not only North Carolina, but also to the entire nation.

North Carolina lawmakers voted on Tuesday to override Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of a mandatory ultrasound bill that forces abortion doctors to say certai...

While there is a growing progressive trend supporting vetoes of radical right-wing legislation, there is a definite backlash against centrist, populist, Blue Dog-style Democrats in North Carolina and all across the South.