From the South to the Great Lakes, contested primaries and open Senate seat battles will determine who's serving for President Trump's last two years.

News & Observer readers comment on an overturned state bill veto, the NC budget, Roy Cooper’s senate bid and Tillis, Budd ...

Last week, House Republicans (and one Democrat) overrode Gov. Josh Stein's veto of House Bill 805, a law introducing many ...

Expected to be the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history, polling released Friday gave former North Carolina Democratic ...

Democrats still in the dumps over last year’s elections have found cause for optimism in North Carolina, where former Gov. Roy Cooper jumped into the race for that state’s newly open seat with a vow ...

Former two-term Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is leading his much lesser-known likely Republican opponent by just ...

Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper led Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley by 6 percentage points in ...

A new poll of the North Carolina Senate election points to a close race between former Governor Roy Cooper and Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley in what is likely to be one of the ...

Chairman Michael Whatley officially announced his bid for North Carolina's U.S. Senate race, shaking up what is expected to ...