Each week, join Dawn Vaughan for The News & Observer and NC Insider’s Under the Dome podcast, an in-depth analysis of topics ...

The eastern box turtle represents holding on and surviving, sticking its neck out, which led to its status as a state symbol ...

Neil Jacobs, who was embroiled in ‘Sharpiegate’ during the first Trump administration, says he supports proposed major cuts ...

A tariff provision of the "big, beautiful bill" spurred an expensive lobbying battle between special interests in the tobacco ...

CCHR says the troubled teen industry still endangers kids’ lives, and tougher bans and oversight of both facilities are ...

The massive tax and spending package that cleared the House on Thursday handed Democrats and Republicans both a message for ...

With Thom Tillis’s abrupt retirement announcement, the Tar Heel State could either be Trump’s best chance to tighten his grip ...

"It only passed the house by one vote with a $2.3 trillion increase in the debt. To ask the House to vote for a bill that ...

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis' surprise retirement announcement over the weekend creates a sudden opening in next year's ...

Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, announced that he would not seek re-election. This came after numerous threats ...

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis' announcement over the weekend that he won't seek reelection is heating up the campaign on ...

Big names include NC's former governor, a former NC congresswoman, the daughter-in-law of the current president, among others.