Supporters of House Speaker Thom Tillis have created a federal super PAC to raise and spend money independently to support a potential U.S. Senate bid of the Mecklenburg County Republican.

The N.C. Association of Realtors is continuing its public push against the elimination of the state mortgage interest and property tax deductions and other possible provisions in the Senate tax reform plan.

The state Senate finished debate on its $20.6 billion budget Thursday and voted 33-17 to send the measure to the House.

As a new leadership team takes shape at UNC-Chapel Hill, an insider has been named as the second-in-command to incoming Chancellor Carol Folt.

Republican political pundit Mary Matalin has made a video for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Edwin Peacock, a former Charlotte City Councilman, has hired veteran GOP strategist Jack Hawke to be his senior strategist in his campaign for Charlotte mayor.

State Trooper Michael Potts, wounded in a shooting during a traffic stop in Durham earlier this year, planned to take up the governor on that promise of a steak and lobster dinner at the mansion Thursday night.

One check is written with loopy cursive handwriting. Another features neat all-capital lettering. And a third is marked by its messy script. But all bear the signature of the same campaign donor -- raising questions about how the checks were directed to state lawmakers and Gov. Pat McCrory and whether state law was violated.

Both Republican lawmakers named Brawley reacted Thursday to the public conflict one had Wednesday with the speaker of the House.

The House unanimously passed a resolution Thursday honoring the military service members from the state who died in 2012 campaigns and all those from past wars.

Dozens of college state-government interns would be sent home this summer and a long-running teen mock legislative program would be shuttered in the Senate budget approved this week.

A measure championed by U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan adds $5 million in new funding to the 2013 farm bill to help root out crop insurance fraud.

A bill sponsored by two Wilmington-area Republicans to rewrite the state's film incentive package -- in a manner critics contend could result in lost film deals -- remains parked in a committee controlled by the House Republican leadership.

World Law Group, one of the largest debt settlement firms in the country, has been ordered to stop collecting illegal upfront fees for its debt settlement services, the office of Attorney General Roy Cooper announced today.

A deep bench and powerful inside presence under the basket gave North Carolina lawmakers the advantage they needed to beat a squad of South Carolina legislators 35-27 in a charity game Wednesday.

For a lot of years, Republican politicians have trumpeted the notion that some services traditionally delivered by government can be better provided by public-private partnerships.

Responsible public financing must be a good thing unless the taxpayer money involved covers saving multi-million dollar beach homes.

There may be no subject that politicians talk more about and have so little control over as jobs. There is good reason for it. No matter their relative impotence regarding the matter, people blame politicians for joblessness and bad economies.

Three summers ago, in August, a rainstorm in central North Carolina sent perhaps thousands of fish from the southern end of Jordan Lake scurrying up the Haw River.

For more than four years now, the North Carolina courts have been sorting through complex issues surrounding lobbying and public disclosure of clients.