Trailing GOP candidates hope challenging a list of voters disqualifies enough to flip outcomes. North Carolina voters on the list take it personally.

With a statewide machine recount completed, incumbent Democrat Allison Riggs holds a 734-vote lead over Republican Jefferson Griffin, who is entitled to a partial hand-to-eye recount from randomly selected precincts and early-voting sites in all of North Carolina's 100 counties

A very close election for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat heads next to a hand recount. That comes after a machine recount of well over 5 million ballots resulted in no margin change between the candidates.

Sen. Dan Blue of Wake County first joined the General Assembly in 1981 and was elected the state's first Black House speaker in 1991. Blue has been the Senate minority leader for over a decade. But on Monday the Senate Democratic Caucus elected Sen. Sydney Batch as the minority leader for the next two-year session.

The N.C. Senate voted along party lines Monday to put two proposed constitutional amendments before voters.

Only about 30% of North Carolina legislators next year will be women. Data in a new book on state politics shows women are underrepresented at all levels of elected offices here.

Republican Jefferson Griffin has filed protests challenging more than 60,000 ballots in the race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, in which he currently trails Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs by 625 votes

Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would shift power away from incoming Governor Josh Stein and other newly elected Democrats.

WUNC fact-checks a new law in North Carolina that will require all sheriffs to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In the November election, more than 5.7 million North Carolinians voted. Nearly 1,700 people had their ballots rejected because they didn't have photo ID.