Tricia Cotham

In 2015, Rep. Tricia Cotham of Mecklenburg County made a public speech on the General Assembly floor about her own abortion. Earlier this year, she switched from being a Democrat to a Republican — and voted for a bill that would ban most abortions after 12 weeks.

Some say the Cotham name — for both Tricia and her mother Pat — is now forever tainted among Democrats. “In the political world, a few months is a lifetime,” Pat Cotham said last week. “I take one day at a time.”

Mecklenburg Democrats rallied Sunday in an effort to harness anger over State Rep. Tricia Cotham's decision to switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.

Rep. Tricia Cotham’s defection to the Republican Party consolidates the GOP’s control over the North Carolina legislature and their agenda. Mike Collins and our panel of guests discuss what this might mean for North Carolina and for you.

Here we are laying out schedules for 2023-24, and CMS high schools still start at 7:15 a.m. So do high schools in Cabarrus County. Gaston’s high schools start at 8:30 — that’s what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends.

Tricia Cotham’s decision to leave the Democratic Party and become a Republican unleashed a firestorm. What are her chances to remain in the House in 2024? Or will she run for something else — like Congress?

North Carolina voters will pick Congressional candidates on Tuesday. The primary was delayed after a federal court ruled two districts were illegally…

A state House committee has passed a bill that would lengthen the mandatory waiting period before a woman could have an abortion.Under current North…