The makeup of voters who cast ballots early looks more like the 2018 midterm election than the 2022 midterm.

Two Democratic legislators from Mecklenburg County who have helped the GOP override several vetoes are facing primary battles.

The Kings Mountain City Council has approved a six‑month moratorium on new data centers in the city west of Charlotte. City leaders said they plan to use the pause to study how data centers affect water supplies and energy use. Kings Mountain already has one major data center on Shelby Road.

When Asheville City Council voted unanimously in 2020 to establish reparations for Black citizens, the city made national headlines.

Food pantry workers in the High Country are seeing a spike in the number of clients they serve following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

During Tuesday night’s address to Congress, President Donald Trump falsely claimed the suspect in last year’s fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail entered the country through “open borders.”

In interviews, more than a dozen voters and local Democratic Party officials expressed a mixture of alarm and optimism ahead of the March 3 primary.

A new ad accuses a Republican state senate candidate of criticizing President Trump’s immigration policy. The ad supports Senate leader Phil Berger over his GOP primary challenger, Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page. Paul Specht of WRAL joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry for more.

Focusing on political victories during his State of the Union address, Trump gave himself and Republicans high marks while scolding Democrats for their stances on the economy and immigration.

Boliek has tasked the 22-member commission with helping to overhaul North Carolina's campaign finance reporting to make it more accessible to the general public.