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candidates will run under the new lines approved by the legislature
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2026 @ 8:59 pm
By: John Steed
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North Carolina lawmakers met in Raleigh on Monday to review newly proposed congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2025 @ 8:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Critics of new Watauga County local election districts have filed a federal lawsuit challenging them.
Published: Saturday, October 11th, 2025 @ 2:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Now that the North Carolina General Assembly has passed congressional maps, candidates are announcing their intentions to run for one of the states 14 congressional seats.
Published: Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 @ 5:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday, state lawmakers released newly drawn maps for congressional districts and state House and Senate districts.
Published: Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 @ 2:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new state audit has revealed a troubling trend for student attendance records in six North Carolina school districts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 10:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state policy directed school staff to hide students' gender identities from parents.
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 1:54 pm
By: Daily Wire
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An undercover video from a conservative news outlet reveals that several public school districts across North Carolina are teaching topics connected to Critical Race Theory.
Published: Thursday, July 20th, 2023 @ 8:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state’s Department of Health and Human Services says its newly revised K-12 Toolkit is a guideline for school districts, but it won’t hold up to state laws.
Published: Friday, February 18th, 2022 @ 12:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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When our General Assembly convened January 13th for the 2021 session, they had two main tasks: passing a state budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 and drawing new districts for congressional, legislative and local governments.
Published: Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 @ 12:28 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Delayed census results mean candidates would not get a shot to file and campaign in new districts
Published: Monday, June 21st, 2021 @ 8:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced two new judicial appointments to Judicial Districts 13 and 20A, which serve Bladen, Brunswick and Columbus counties and Stanly and Montgomery counties, respectively.
Published: Monday, November 16th, 2020 @ 11:14 am
By: Governor's Office
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A recent News & Observer editorial on redistricting claimed that “the numbers (of districts likely to be won by either Republicans or Democrats) are irrelevant if the redistricting process remains — as it has — purely partisan.”
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2019 @ 4:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A three-judge panel unanimously upheld North Carolina’s new congressional districts, just in time for 2020 candidates to start filing.
Published: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019 @ 5:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For several North Carolina counties, the General Assembly’s new election maps may misrepresent the actual population counts by around 20%.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 6:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina General Assembly passed a new set of congressional districts today. Within an hour, the same Democratic organization that had sued against the previous map said that they would sue over the new map as well.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 2:06 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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N.C. lawmakers so far have spent two days huddled around computers in a garishly lit legislative committee room, working to fit the puzzle pieces in what will become newly redrawn congressional districts.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 @ 10:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. lawmakers are once again haggling over how to begin drawing new voter maps. This time, North Carolina’s congressional districts are at stake.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2019 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Don’t retire the lottery machines just yet. Experts say the General Assembly may soon enter another round of map redraws.
Published: Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 @ 4:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I remember when the inherent boredom of redistricting was a laugh line.
Published: Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 @ 12:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I'm not surprised that the editors of the News & Observer blame the N.C. General Assembly for the migration of students from districts to charter, home, and private schools.
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2019 @ 9:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new grant program will help expand school breakfast access in ten North Carolina School Districts, Governor Roy Cooper and First Lady Kristin Cooper announced today
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2018 @ 1:01 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper today announced six new judicial appointments across the state
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2018 @ 11:47 am
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Governor Cooper announced new judicial appointments in Districts 9 and 27A
Published: Thursday, April 26th, 2018 @ 12:01 am
By: Governor's Office
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Today North Carolina's three-judge panel ordered new legislative districts to be drawn and used in this year's election
Published: Friday, January 19th, 2018 @ 8:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Gov. Roy Cooper announced three new judicial appointments in districts across North Carolina
Published: Saturday, December 23rd, 2017 @ 12:32 am
By: Governor's Office
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A three-judge panel has ordered a Stanford law professor to redraw nine N.C. legislative districts by Dec. 1, signaling "serious concerns" about the legislature's effort to correct maps that had been thrown out because of racial gerrymandering
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2017 @ 11:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last spring, Rep. Justin Burr, R-Stanly, filed a bill that would establish new judicial and prosecutorial districts throughout the state and specify the number of judges and prosecutors for each While House Bill 717 didn’t come to a vote during the regular session
Published: Friday, October 6th, 2017 @ 6:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Eight members of the state House either will face challenges from incumbents or will need to run for election in new legislative districts
Published: Monday, August 21st, 2017 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge federal panel has denied a request to force a special N.C. legislative election before regularly scheduled 2018 contests
Published: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017 @ 5:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As state lawmakers returned home for a brief summer break, some members and their staffs were awaiting court orders outlining new General Assembly districts after federal judges declared the current map unconstitutional and racially gerrymandered
Published: Thursday, July 6th, 2017 @ 10:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The News & Observer of Raleigh and The Charlotte Observer have offered up a wonderful example of the power of free and independent thought
Published: Wednesday, June 21st, 2017 @ 6:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative Republicans wasted little time Thursday dispatching Gov. Roy Cooper's call for an extra session to draw new legislative districts
Published: Thursday, June 8th, 2017 @ 2:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Plaintiffs in a lawsuit that convinced a panel of federal judges to toss out North Carolina’s legislative redistricting maps want new districts drawn during a special session in January 2017
Published: Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 @ 7:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Republican lawmakers have answered a three-judge panel ruling earlier this month with a new congressional map that makes changes to all 13 districts and looks very different from the map it replaced. Since the unveiling, Gov. Pat McCrory has called the General Assembly back into a spe
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2016 @ 12:10 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The General Assembly on Friday approved a broad array of electoral changes including a separate June 7 congressional primary and new congressional district boundaries before adjourning the two-day special session Gov. Pat McCrory had called.
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2016 @ 11:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) released the following statement on the newly proposed Congressional districts
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 7:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory has signed a proclamation calling the General Assembly to convene for an extra session and issued the following statement.
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 1:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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