N.C. Politics

A bill that passed the state House last week is named for 14-year-old Yulia Hicks. She was reportedly denied a kidney transplant at Duke Health because her family refused the vaccine.

North Carolina senators want to let teens get their provisional driver’s license faster.

The North Carolina General Assembly starts a new long session on Jan. 11.

The May 17th primary is less than two months away, and the attacks are mounting as advertisements increase.

The justices are allowing maps selected by the N.C. Supreme Court to be in effect for the 2022 elections. The map most likely will give Democrats an additional House seat in 2023.

U.S. District Judge Richard Myers declared the state's candidate challenge process didn't apply to a portion of the 14th Amendment designed to prevent congressmen who had fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War from returning to Congress, according to attorneys involved in the challenge and Cawthorn's lawsuit.

A hearing in federal district court could keep voters from getting to challenge Madison Cawthorn's candidacy.

In December, Cawthorn had filed to run for an open seat further east that had been created by the state legislature in November for the once-a-decade redistricting process. It was considered a more pro-GOP district than the district covering where he lives in Henderson County.

Legislative Republicans in North Carolina want the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a state redistricting case.

The General Assembly approved new plans last week for North Carolina's congressional and state legislative districts.