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Roy Cooper is a fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

WUNC to lead North Carolina Newsroom, offers localized stories from the Legislative Building.

Former local elections directors from across the state and ex-military officials and service members' spouses have filed briefs against Jefferson Griffin in his legal battle to turn around his electoral loss in a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court.

N.C. Sen. Benton Sawrey, R-Johnston, landed an influential role in his second term this session as co-chair of the Senate’s committees on health care. He joined this week’s WUNC Politics Podcast to talk about his efforts to address the unusually high costs of health care in North Carolina.

The bill would study five districts with the most students in the state: Wake County Schools, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Guilford County Schools, Winston-Salem/Forsyth and Cumberland County Schools.

A rundown of where North Carolina's Congressional delegation stands on Ukraine, as of Monday, and how those views may have changed after Friday's contentious meeting between Trump and Zelensky.

Governor Roy Cooper appointed Wayne Goodwin to lead NCDMV in 2022. He faced questions from the legislature over wait times at driver's license offices in fast-growing areas of the state.

The state House unanimously approved an additional $500 million for Helene recovery Tuesday, including funding to rebuild homes damaged in the storm, clean up debris and rebuild private roads and bridges.

Democratic state lawmakers who served in the military demanded that Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin abandon his attempt to invalidate thousands of ballots, including ones cast by military and overseas voters.

The Wake County Democrat revealed a throat cancer diagnosis in December. Over the weekend, John announced his resignation, saying that he had received a terminal diagnosis. He served on the Court of Appeals in the 1990s and as the crime lab director in the early 2010s.