One year ago today, Scotland County residents were awaiting the expected arrival of Hurricane Florence, a Category 1 storm that wasn’t as fearsome because of its wind and rain so much as the fact that [...]

RALEIGH — Republicans dominating a nearly half-empty North Carolina House chamber held an unexpected vote Wednesday and managed to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the state’s two-year budget. Republican leaders had spent months [...]

RALEIGH (AP) — Republicans dominating a half-empty North Carolina House chamber have voted to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the state’s two-year budget. The unexpected vote Wednesday morning came without dozens of Democrats [...]

LAURINBURG — Republican State Sen. Dan Bishop is going to Washington. Bishop narrowly won a special election Tuesday over Democrat Dan McCready for the 9th District congressional seat, a seat that has been vacant since [...]