The CHCCS is one of eight districts to have passed a resolution demanding greater local control over academic calendars, as the current one-size-fits-all mandate is too strict and inflexible.
With the ongoing government shutdown, Rep. David Price is introducing a bill to reopen the DOT and HUD.
Common Cause v. Rucho could become an exemplary case for future gerrymandering accusations.
"We were trying to find, as they say, an elegant solution, one that represented our thinking and what we had heard, but also was not illegal and was cognizant of the trauma that Confederate statues and remnants of the Confederacy and white supremacy have upon many people in our community.”
One electoral district is clouded in fraud allegations. Affidavits submitted by residents suggest that absentee ballots were falsified.
North Carolinians approved a voter ID law this past November, but the legislation will have to battle opposition and lawsuits before the next election.
“We continue to mourn the lives lost to Hurricane Florence as we face the task of recovery with determination and compassion.”
Plainclothes ICE officers posing as other immigrants filling out paperwork detained Samuel Oliver-Bruno in Durham on Nov. 23.
The N.C. General Assembly will begin talking about marijuana legalization in the new year, but if the proposal passes, it will be up to local governments to actually legalize it.
The latest election may have been less than a month ago, but leaders of UNC's Young Democrats and College Republicans are already planning for the next one.
The LEAP program aims to meet the severe needs of students at the top of the academic spectrum, which several in the CHCCS system say is as necessary to student academic and personal growth as other programs that help underachieving students.
Bob Phillips has dedicated for almost 20 years to making sure voters get to choose their lawmakers, but he still hasn't found the solution.
With the Republican General Assembly to lose its supermajority in the New Year, legislators are pushing the final details on the voter I.D. amendment.
"My biggest thing was about running for something, and I truly believe that if you are running for office, you’ve always got to be running for something — not against anyone, not against anything — but you’ve got to be running for something."
Young North Carolina voters across the country were met with challenges as the absentee ballots they requested never showed up.
Democrats received more votes than Republicans for the state Senate and State House in the midterm election, yet Republicans will keep a majority of the seats in both chambers.
Check out the following updates on the Durham-Orange Light Rail.
What Kendra Johnson, director of Equality NC, called the 'Rainbow Wave' reflects the increased representation of openly LGBTQ+ politians being elected to offices. But there is still work to be done.
A man interrupted a vigil in Chapel Hill memorializing victims of anti-Semitism and white supremacy on Saturday, claiming that the vigil was to remove the Jefferson Davis Highway sign among other allegations.
This year, James Stimson, a Raymond Dawson Distinguished Bicentennial Professor of Political Science, retired after 21 years of service to the UNC Department of Political Science. He sat down with The Daily Tar Heel to discuss Tuesday's results.
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