Cooper said North Carolina Republicans "took money out of western North Carolina" when they passed a Hurricane Helene relief bill last month. Legislators stripped the governor’s power to enhance ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper is winding down his final weeks in office. After serving eight years, the Democrat did not run in the 2024 election due to term limits.

Roy Cooper said he was proud to have fought for ... He mentioned several challenges North Carolina has faced in that time, including the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters that have included ...

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Outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina commuted the death sentences of 15 people this week but still denied the majority of clemency petitions from prisoners on death row.

North Carolina’s highest court has upheld a law that gave adult victims of child sexual abuse two additional years to seek ...

The state's health and human services department is charged with ensuring access to legal birth control and reproductive health care medication in North Carolina. Stein's action builds off a previous ...

WATCH: Gov. Roy Cooper speaks at 2024 Democratic National Convention North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper spoke Thursday on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, an evening ...

There are still some unresolved races from the 2024 election, and one of them involves a seat on North Carolina’s highest ...

Roy Cooper’s commutation of 15 death sentences to life without parole sentences bears great significance. Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty ...