CORRECTION -- 6/14: An earlier version of this story reported that Carrie Severino, chief counsel to the Judicial Crisis Network, had said that the Ju...

A North Carolina Senate committee Tuesday amended sweeping pro-gun legislation under consideration, to make it easier to buy a gun without a backgroun...

A North Carolina legislative committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would ban the consideration of "foreign laws," including Sharia, in the state...

North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Randy Voller apologized Saturday after making a rape comparison during a local meeting. WRAL reports a twe...

A Republican state senator in North Carolina told a newspaper publisher to "be quiet" during a public hearing Tuesday on legislation that could shift ...

North Carolina state Rep. Michele Presnell (R-Burnsville) linked Islamic prayer to terrorism in an email sent to a constituent, the News & Observer re...

The Republican speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives killed legislation on Thursday that aimed to establish an official state religio...

Republican North Carolina state legislators have proposed allowing an official state religion in a measure that would declare the state exempt from th...

Legislative committees in two states are moving forward with gun bills that are meant to thwart federal efforts to increase gun control. Missouri l...

North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature is set to do battle over legislation that would allow the state's new Republican governor to make a...

A measure aimed at preventing groups like Westboro Baptist Church from protesting at funerals advanced in the North Carolina state legislature Wednesd...

Jason Saine received unemployment compensation for more than a year before he landed a part-time job as a state legislator in North Carolina. This mon...

A Republican lawmaker in North Carolina is proposing an amendment to the state's constitution allowing residents to carry concealed weapons, in an eff...

Two more state lawmakers - including a Democrat - are proposing that teachers be allowed to carry guns into schools. Lawmakers in Virginia and Nor...

WASHINGTON -- Fifteen states are likely to see some sort of tax reform legislation in 2013, according to a study released Wednesday by the Institute o...

As the nation mourns the horrifying mass shooting of children and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Asheville, North Carolina Tea Party has p...

A North Carolina Tea Party is getting creative with a fundraiser slated for next month. On Sept. 29, the Asheville Tea Party is hosting a "Machine...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) had no business invoking the Aurora, Colo., shootings to advance a completely unrelated partisan bill, her D...

Last week, the first lady talked with a few women writers from swing states to launch her It Takes One campaign and explain why it’s important to he...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Adding a twist to blue laws in an increasingly red state, North Carolina's Republican-led legislature is toasting a measure intended ...

Democrats are criticizing Wisconsin U.S. Senate hopeful Tommy Thompson over published reports indicating his involvement with a bill pending in the No...

President Barack Obama’s decision in February 2011 to hold the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina looked like a bold move to reclaim a...

Inside North Carolina, a political storm of hurricane proportions has been brewing since Friday the 13th of April that involved allegations of sexual harassment and a cover up within the staff of the Democratic Party.

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina has long prided itself on its moderate politics dating to the civil rights era, as well as its place as a New Sou...

He’d rather talk about something else – say, the economy or education. But press Pat McCrory about gay marriage, and the presumptive Republican...