The Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association Insurance Co. sued North Carolina Mutual Wholesale Drug Co. in federal court, claiming it has no duty to indemnify or defend the wholesaler, which is facing 69 opioid lawsuits in Ohio, 56 of which were brought by counties in North Carolina.
Read moreThe Southern Environmental Law Center sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court for information on “the conservation and management of North Carolina’s critically endangered red wolf,” which may have been reduced to only 14 animals.
Read moreFake gunshots rang out through a North Carolina courthouse Friday as part of an active shooter training simulation that prevented non-employee visitors from entering the building for several hours.
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House Republicans in North Carolina’s state legislature voted Wednesday to override Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of a contentiously partisan two-year budget proposal — a vote that occurred while nearly half of the chamber’s members were missing from the floor.
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Conservative Republican Dan Bishop won a special election for an open House seat in North Carolina, averting a demoralizing Democratic capture of a district the GOP has held for nearly six decades. But his narrow victory didn’t erase questions about whether President Trump and his party’s congressional candidates face troubling headwinds approaching 2020.
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President Trump’s Monday rally in Fayetteville, N.C., on the eve of a controversial redo election in the state’s 9th Congressional District showed how local politics may have a national impact on the 2020 elections.
Read moreIn a closely watched contest that could foreshadow the 2020 race, voters in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District will cast their ballots Tuesday in a special do-over election called in light of ballot-fraud accusations.
Read moreSkies cleared and floodwaters receded Saturday from North Carolina’s Outer Banks, leaving behind a muddy trail of destruction wrought by Hurricane Dorian, which still was expected to unleash powerful winds in New England and Nova Scotia.
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Hurricane Dorian howled over North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Friday — a much weaker but still dangerous version of the storm that wreaked havoc in the Bahamas — flooding homes in the low-lying ribbon of islands and throwing a scare into year-round residents who tried to tough it out.
Read moreHurricane Dorian raked the Carolina coast with howling, window-rattling winds and sideways rain Thursday, spinning off tornadoes and knocking out power to more than 200,000 homes and businesses as it pushed northward toward the dangerously exposed Outer Banks.
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As Hurricane Dorian moves away from the flooded remains of the Bahamas, governors across the American South are ordering evacuations, declaring states of emergency and asking for federal support ahead of the storm’s expected U.S. landfall.
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A panel of judges in North Carolina Tuesday struck down voting maps created by the Republican-controlled Legislature, ruling that they are unconstitutional and must be redrawn before the 2020 elections.
Read morePresidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke met a cheering crowd Wednesday outside a North Carolina brewery and quickly brought them to a hush with his plan to combat gun violence.
Read moreA federal jury on Wednesday absolved novelist Nicholas Sparks of all defamation claims brought by a former headmaster of the author’s private school ensuing an employment-related trial.
Read moreSettling down this week after months on the run, a rouge emu known as Eno is closer to being captured by authorities the bird has thus far evaded in the center of North Carolina, according to Orange County officials.
Read moreFriday’s windup of a lengthy partisan gerrymandering trial in North Carolina leaves the future of legislative district lines in limbo following two weeks of conflicting testimony.
Read moreA North Carolina man has died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a manmade lake at a water park, officials said Wednesday.
Read moreFlaws in an expert’s math found during North Carolina’s gerrymandering trial Thursday prompted a three-judge-panel in Raleigh to scrap analysis a witness for Republican lawmakers presented.
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The heating and air-conditioning in Carrie Johnson’s home, damaged by Hurricane Matthew in 2016, still wasn’t fixed when Hurricane Florence flooded her house last September. Now her home of over 50 years is gutted, the floors and walls just bare wooden beams smelling faintly of river water.
Read moreWitnesses for North Carolina GOP lawmakers on Wednesday said democracy advocates’ experts misused numbers during testimony in the case to determine if Republicans violated the state’s constitution by unfairly gerrymandering state political districts in their party’s favor.
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