State Sen. Phil Berger ​Sr.​ is immensely powerful. He’s the state’s most potent Republican leader. It’s possible he’s not ...
It’s House Bill 20, the Fair Maps Act. It would amend the North Carolina Constitution to require that legislative and ...
The North Carolina Department of Health told The Independent that there have been five new cases of active tuberculosis this year. “This is the greatest number of tuberculosis cases reported in ...
Start your Independent Premium subscription today ... No. 2444 was struck and killed on U.S. 64 near Manns Harbor, North Carolina. His death likely meant five pups he'd been providing for died ...
Republicans have been winning an asymmetric war over district lines for decades. To preserve democracy, their opponents will ...
A campaign promise kept by Donald Trump is renewing centuries-old questions about who gets to be Native in America.
The GOP candidate for state Supreme Court refuses to accept that “North Carolinians simply did not choose him" ...
An appeals court has agreed that a federal trial judge acted properly last month in declining to rule on the eligibility of ...
A North Carolina trial judge has upheld decisions by election officials to reject protests by the trailing candidate in a ...
Three counts found an incumbent Democrat won a State Supreme Court race. But the Republican candidate is trying to nullify ...
The first-ever exhibition on Madison, North Carolina native and classical music trailblazer Mary Cardwell Dawson will close ...