Politics

Is North Carolina ready to do away with its stay-at-home order and reopen restaurants and hair salons? Gov. Roy Cooper says he’ll make a decision midweek.

“The firings of multiple Inspectors General is unprecedented; doing so without good cause chills the independence essential to their purpose,” Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah tweeted on Saturday.

With Roy Cooper considering easing restrictions, coronavirus cases soared in the last five days, but so did testing in North Carolina.

In the midst of a pandemic and an election year, Cardinal & Pine’s Associate Editor Sarah Ovaska talks about why local news is so crucial.

In NC, any registered voter can request a mail-in ballot for any reason. Election officials predict up to 40% of ballots could be cast by mail this fall.

The new poll comes from Trump’s favorite pollster.

“We don’t want our churches to become hotspots for this virus,” Gov. Roy Cooper said after religious freedom lawsuit filed Thursday.

“Freedoms crushed eventually become no freedoms at all,” Winston-Salem pastor Ron Baity, said at a rally of about 500 Thursday in Raleigh.

Why an explosive insider trading investigation of Sen. Richard Burr amps up an already wild election year in North Carolina.

Top official in Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration addresses concerns of a new COVID-19 spike in North Carolina, amid surge in Charlotte.