RALEIGH – Residents of the city's Five Points neighborhood are urging the city to choose one of the two options that would keep the trains on the opposite side of Capital Boulevard from their homes. City planners prefer this option as part o…

RALEIGH – In the wake of federal stimulus packages, bailouts, and massive overhauls of the nation’s health care and financial sectors, the concept of “limited government” might appear out of date. Still, the American system of government is designed …

RALEIGH – North Carolina Congressman G.K. Butterfield is one of a half-dozen federal lawmakers facing an ethics probe for allegedly pocketing portions of his taxpayer-funded travel stipend.

The investigation comes on the heels of calls for Butterfie…

RALEIGH –  North Carolina’s top-paid legislator in 2009 earned 48 percent more than the average state government employee earned in the same year, and 54 percent more than the average private sector employee. The top-paid legislator was Senat…

RALEIGH – Residents of Raleigh's Five Points district are standing up against an option to bring President Obama's high speed rail through their backyards. The option is called NC-3, which would run trains down the west side of Capi…

YADKINVILLE –  Yadkin County commissioners took the first steps Monday toward a possible investigation of the county Health Department, whose director recently announced he will retire. But the commission’s initial moves were not posted on a…

RALEIGH – Watauga County voters snapped a seven-referendum winning streak for supporters of local tax increases Tuesday by voting down, 62-38 percent, a quarter-cent sales tax hike.

County commissioners had pledged to use $1.9 million in revenue gen…

RALEIGH – You could call it a clash of titans, to borrow a phrase. In just one month, one American organization criticized superheroes as bad role models for boys, while a Canadian group promoted the use of comics and graphic novels to increase liter…

RALEIGH – A new sheriff is coming to town – a budget-slashing, tax-cutting lawman. And his badge bears the initials GOP. At least, that’s what the North Carolina Republican Party wants voters to think.

At a kick-off press conference Tuesday mornin…

RALEIGH – Supporters of Wake County's conservative school board majority are upset with Gov. Bev Perdue for awarding the state's top honor to a controversial civil rights leader. Rev. William Barber received the Order of the Long Le…