North Carolina Democrats called a GOP-backed law shifting election board control to a Republican auditor unconstitutional in a lawsuit to block it.

Republican Jefferson Griffin narrowly lost his race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. Now he’s asking that 60,000 ballots be thrown out based on a theory that an election denier said amounted to “voter suppression.

Donald Trump won North Carolina and will soon begin his second term. But how did he win the Tar Heel State? Explore voter turnout by demographics.

Josh Stein will start out his term as North Carolina's chief executive much the same way his predecessor and fellow Democrat Roy Cooper did, battling the Republican-led legislature in court. But Stein faces a much more slanted playing field than Cooper did.

Amazon.com Inc. employees at a North Carolina warehouse filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board requesting an election to determine if workers in the facility will be represented by a union.

An uncertified election for North Carolina Supreme Court took another step in federal court Monday, a business day after the suspension from federal court of a state elections board member’s spouse earlier mired in recusal controversy of that race.

Three federal judges appointed by Democrats have changed their retirement plans ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Republicans in the state legislature gave an ally control over the state’s elections board, rewrote ballot-counting rules and chipped away at the power of the incoming Democratic governor.

Jefferson Griffin, a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, sought a promotion to the state Supreme Court in November, but voters said no. Now Griffin, a Republican, wants to change the election’s outcome by altering the electorate. He is seeking to have more than 60,000 votes thrown out because of voter registration issues.

A trailing candidate in a very close election last month for the North Carolina Supreme Court has asked that court to get involved legally in his race.

The trailing Republican in a tight North Carolina Supreme Court race has suffered legal setbacks in his bid to overtake his Democratic rival