Phil Berger

The longtime sheriff in North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger's home county says he plans to run for Berger's seat next year regardless of whether the powerful politician seeks another term.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections' top administrator wants a powerful legislator to retract a comment that he made suggesting this month's results were being manipulated. Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell wrote to Senate leader on Thursday, the day after he spoke to reporters.

Currently Berger's deputy chief of staff for policy and budget, Kolt Ulm joined Berger's office in 2013 and has held a number of positions.

Republicans at the North Carolina legislature converged Tuesday in a standoff over an already long-delayed budget plan because the House and Senate disagree on adding provisions that would further

State and local leaders gathered Monday for a ceremony marking the opening of the final segment of Greensboro’s Urban Loop project.

North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger on Tuesday called an offer from state hospitals to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of the working poor “not a serious proposal,” saying loosened re