General Assembly

AP – Two North Carolina legislators who announced this week they had tested positive for COVID-19 participated in the same duck-hunting trip with other elected officials last week.

Matthew Burns, WRAL — As Congress debated impeaching President Donald Trump over last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, North Carolina lawmakers opened a two-year session on Wednesday with promises …
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Lucille Sherman and Virginia Bridges, News and Observer – Sydney Batch, who previously represented Wake County in the state House, is North Carolina’s newest state senator. And Knightdale Mayor James …
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Michael Hyland, CBS17 WNCN – Republican state legislative leaders say they plan to question officials in Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration next week about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout as the CDC …
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Matt Bush, Blue Ridge Public Radio – The North Carolina General Assembly reconvenes next week. After all the campaign rhetoric and money of 2020, the partisan makeup of Raleigh will …
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Travis Fain, WRAL – Sen. Sam Searcy, D-Wake, will resign from the North Carolina Senate and endorse another Democrat to fill the two-year term he won in November, he confirmed …
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Will Doran, News and Observer – Darren Jackson, the Knightdale lawyer who has been the top Democrat in the N.C. House of Representatives for the past several years, is moving …
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Rob Christensen and Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer – Marc Basnight, arguably the most powerful state legislator in North Carolina’s history, died Monday at age 73.