The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in ...

The governor's seat is not up for election.

The political forecasting site Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball has shifted the North Carolina governor’s race toward Democrats ...

North Carolina's Republican candidate for governor promised to stay in the race on Thursday after CNN reported that he once ...

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson posted a slew of incendiary, explicit and racist comments on a pornographic website more than a decade ago, according to CNN.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, the Republican nominee for governor, vowed to stay in the race and pre-emptively ...

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) on Thursday said he’s staying in the gubernatorial race following speculation throughout the day that he might drop out in response to an explosive CNN ...

North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson has vowed to remain in his race despite a CNN media report ...

Welcome to the governor’s race edition of our Under the Dome politics newsletter. I’m Dawn Vaughan, The News & Observer’s Capitol bureau chief. As Republican House Speaker Tim Moore was ...

Gov. Dan Forest (R) by about 4.5 percent. “It’s still, for the governor’s race, I think it’s still kind of early in that. We’ve got 50-some-odd days right now,” said state House ...