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The former South Carolina governor's new tone stands in stark contrast with April 2021, when she said she would not seek her party’s nomination if Trump were also running.

Former President Donald Trump held a fundraiser Tuesday night for N.C. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's campaign for governor.

The lawsuit in state court says current congressional and state legislative maps endanger voters' constitutional right to free and fair elections.

In Wednesday’s compromise, the GOP agreed to give North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, the ability to step in and close schools in case of a COVID-19 emergency. But Democrats backed away from their earlier position that middle and high schools follow CDC recommendations that students need to be at least six feet apart.

North Carolina regulators have approved a rate increase for Duke Energy customers in the central part of the state, including Charlotte — but it's less than the company asked for. Wednesday's order by the North Carolina Utilities Commission also trims what Duke had hoped to charge customers for the cost of cleaning up coal ash.

Asheville City Council voted Tuesday evening to remove the Vance Monument from its spot in the city's main public space. The monument is named for Zebulon Vance, a North Carolina governor and U.S. senator. Vance and his family enslaved people prior to the war, and he fought vehemently against full civil rights for Black Americans after it.

North Carolina lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a bill to make it illegal for physicians to perform abortions because of the fetus' race or a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.

After being rebuked in court for trying to spend his share of federal COVID-19 money on private school tuition grants, South Carolina's governor wants to spend the money on early childhood education, job training and tutors for foster children instead.

Duke Energy plans to move its headquarters to a new building it's constructing across the street from its current home in uptown Charlotte. The company says it's adopting a new workplace model that dramatically reduces its need for office space.

More than half of the untested sexual assault kits recently accounted for in law enforcement evidence lockers across North Carolina have now been tested or are awaiting testing at private labs, Attorney General Josh Stein said on Tuesday.

North Carolina House Democrats and education advocates are urging Republicans at the legislature to start funding public education programs to comply with obligations declared in long-running litigation.

U.S. Sen. Tim Scott has launched his 2022 reelection campaign. The Republican said in a series of stops across South Carolina on Monday that he and other Republicans represent progress and stability for voters in this deeply conservative state.

Gov. Henry McMaster has ended South Carolina’s ongoing pandemic-related state of emergency. The Republican said during a news conference Monday that the coronavirus situation in the state had improved to the point that it was no longer necessary.

Duke Energy earned a profit of $765 million during the second quarter of 2021, boosted by higher electric rates and growth in energy usage — including by people who are still working at home. That was a rebound from a loss in the same quarter a year ago.

The dean of the school of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the effort to bring award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to her faculty, says she's stepping down. Susan King issued a statement to the faculty of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media on Tuesday.

Once again, a white Southern man is arrested for a potential act of domestic terrorism. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his On My Mind commentary, wonders where that anger comes from – and traces it to a twisted sense of Biblical justice.

The local organization providing utility, rent and mortgage assistance in Mecklenburg County says the number of people seeking help continues to grow, but there's no danger of running out of money, at least through the new year.

During the first two weekends of November, Charlotte can say goodbye to the Main Library in uptown. The building closed last week and will be demolished in early 2022 to make way for a new $100 million project at the same site.

Cawthorn, a first-term Republican representative, said in a video posted to Twitter that he will run for reelection in North Carolina's newly redrawn 13th Congressional District. That district runs from Western North Carolina to include a part of western Mecklenburg County.

A final North Carolina budget bill is now law after Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed it almost as soon as the legislature placed it on his desk. The General Assembly gave its final approval on Thursday to a two-year state spending plan with a vote in the House.