Republicans who control the North Carolina legislature on Wednesday approved a new congressional map that could help their party pick up at least three US House seats in next year’s elections.

North Carolina’s new Congressional map has been approved by lawmakers in the state legislature on Wednesday, and it brings big gains for the Republican Party.

Big waves, overwash and a risk for gusty winds will increase as Hurricane Erin passes close to North Carolina coast. Tropical Storm Warnings are up for the North Carolina coast.

Urgent warnings were issued by the National Weather Service on Wednesday afternoon amid torrential rainfall in the Tar Heel State.

The Republican-led North Carolina legislature passed a new congressional map Wednesday that experts said likely heavily favors their party.

At the center of the case is a gerrymandered map that was drawn in 2020 by the Republican-controlled state legislature. Steve Harrison, politics and government reporter for WFAE, joins us.

Election officials in North Carolina changed the voting districts ahead of the 2024 election cycle. The impact affects the U.S. House, state house and senate seats.

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At least 18 youth summer camps across North Carolina stand on or are very near federally designated floodways and flood zones, according to state and federal maps reviewed by The News & Observer.

In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court said a partisan redistricting case out of North Carolina raised a political, nonjusticiable ...