Elizabeth Dole News

The sand-colored federal courthouse on Main Street is now officially the J. Herbert Small Federal Building.

Sen. Richard Burr doesn't have a Democratic challenger yet, but his campaign is already going on the attack - against a North Carolina-based polling firm that has been instrumental in creating the impression that Burr is one of the senators most vulnerable to defeat in 2010.

John McCain's stock is falling faster than Wachovia's. You can read a candidate's polls by reading what they do.

A Ripple or a Wave? Carter Wrenn posted on October 31, 2008 16:59 With all the howling going on and the attacks being hurled back and forth on TV between the various campaigns it must be pretty hard for the last hand... 31 Thanks, John Kerry Gary Pearce posted on October 31, 2008 15:43 John Kerry's campaign to destroy the Democratic Party ...

North Carolina's Republican Party has chosen former Raleigh mayor Tom Fetzer as its chairman, party spokesman Brent Woodcox said.

JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com Elizabeth Dole isn't slowing down. North Carolina's former Republican senator was in Charlotte on Thursday for a fundraiser for two groups affiliated with Mike Huckabee, the former and possibly future GOP presidential candidate.

News from a WLOS report that Buncombe County Republican Party Chair Timothy Johnson pled guilty 13 years ago to aggravated assault charges involving his former wife are now troubling his run for the state vice-chair position.

U.S. Congressman Heath Shuler speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Conference and Education Center at Bent Creek Experimental Forest on Monday.

Still savoring Wednesday's victory in the U.S. House, the Lumbee tribe now looks to a more difficult battleground - the U.S. Senate - in its effort to gain federal recognition with benefits.

Given all the secrecy with the incentives deals to land companies in North Carolina, it's no surprise that negotiators give them code names.

Jeff Miller pays his respects at Arlington National Cemetery. Times-News Online Published: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 10:57 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 10:57 a.m. Jeff Miller, the Hendersonville dry cleaning company owner who co-founded the national program that has carried thousands of World War II veterans to Washington to see ...

After a second straight lackluster showing at the polls, North Carolina GOP activists are looking for answers as they search for a new state Republican Party leader.

Democrat Mike McIntyre, a Lumberton native who is now in his seventh term as the U.S. representative for District 7, has opened the door for a run at the Senate seat now held by Richard Burr, a Republican - but he is keeping his cards close to the vest.

Published: Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 3:10 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 3:10 p.m. Most political observers believed North Carolina had not heard the last of Cal Cunningham when he left the North Carolina Senate in 2004.

To the Editor, Last November, North Carolina lost a true statesman in Sen. Elizabeth Dole.

Tom Fetzer, Raleigh's former mayor, plans to sue a Wilmington radio host for libel for forwarding an e-mail that alleges he is gay.

News was made on Local Edge Radio 880 AM on Friday. I was sitting in with the show hosts, Blake and Lesley , when they had David Young , chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, call in to chat.

The Fix is off today but no morning would be complete without a little cheating -- in the Cheat Sheet of course.

Veterans and their dependents of the risk of exposure to contaminants and health effects for bases on the EPA National Priority List .

U.S. Attorney George Holding speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Oct.