This election is North Carolina’s first with its new Republican-drawn congressional map that could help the GOP pick up at least three US House seats.

Much of the attention each presidential election cycle centers on swing states where the outcome can have an outsize impact on who wins the White House ... U.S. Senate contests in North Carolina ...

Forsyth and Guilford counties, as well as North Carolina’s other urban counties, could be represented by just one state ...

Two bills which have drawn broad attention this legislative session were respectively passed out of committee Tuesday.