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Nell Redmond/APNorth Carolina's first absentee ballots for the November election will now be distributed starting late next week. -
Candidate campaigns/Composite Created by WUNCThe N.C. Supreme Court is the highest court in North Carolina where Republicans currently hold a 5-to-2 majority. This year, incumbent Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, will face Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin.
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The Republican Party has sued North Carolina's elections board to block students and employees at the state's flagship public university from showing a digital identification to comply with a photo ID law. -
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have launched campaign blitzes with dramatically different approaches to attracting swing-state voters who will decide the presidential contest. Harris started in North Carolina making a broad appeal. -
Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in Charlotte on Thursday. It was her first campaign event after Tuesday's debate, and reflects how the Democrats believe they can keep North Carolina in play and win the state this year. -
House Bill 10 is slated to become law and force North Carolina sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. -
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are each making a beeline for swing states that they hope to flip in their favor this year. Harris will hold rallies in Charlotte and Greensboro in North Carolina on Thursday, while Trump is heading to Tucson, Arizona. -
The North Carolina State House voted Wednesday to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to fund private school vouchers, part of a spending bill that also includes a controversial immigration provision. -
Ordered by the North Carolina Supreme Court to reprint absentee ballots, the state elections board said it's unsure when it can start sending ballots to voters who have requested them. -
The office of lieutenant governor in North Carolina doesn't come with much power, but it's often a stepping stone for leaders who eventually run for governor. -
NC State historian Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway talks labor in North Carolina and the South, and connects the past to the struggles and accomplishments of organizing today. -
The highest courts in two states have ruled differently on efforts by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be removed from their presidential ballots. A divided North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed late Monday that he should be omitted from that state's ballots.
