The town of Davidson says longtime town manager Jamie Justice will retire effective June 30. Justice has been the town’s manager since 2015 and had a focus in financial management, improved communication and community engagement.

The proposal would ask voters to consider mandating that the General Assembly enact levy limits on local governments. It does not include any specifics about the level of those limits.

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Cooper stopped in Asheville for his “Make Stuff Cost Less” tour.

A machine recount is underway following the state's normal procedure, but Senate leader Phil Berger wants election officials to perform a hand-to-eye recount on certain types of ballots.

Senate leader Phil Berger’s primary campaign raised 34 times as much money as his challenger, Rockingham County Sam Page, but Page’s candidacy was boosted by four outside groups — most of which haven’t disclosed much about their donors and spending.

With the North Carolina primary over and done, get ready for the campaign leading to November. Get ready for a blizzard of advertising, particularly in the race for U.S. Senate. It is likely to be the most expensive Senate race in the country, with about half a billion dollars expected to be spent. In a world where people are entrenched in their ideologies, how do you convincingly use that money?

While local government communications are public, cities vary widely in how they fulfill the legal obligation to make them available.

Berger says there are several "overvotes" and hundreds of "undervotes" in Senate District 26 election, asks elections board members to visually check those ballots.

More than 150 households were waiting on the extension, which came two weeks before the program was slated to end.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein is in western North Carolina this week for a visit focused on rural issues. On Monday, he held a roundtable in the town of Marion with more than a dozen local business, government and nonprofit leaders. Several participants said housing remains a crucial challenge in their communities.