Elizabeth Dole News

Parades and picnics signaled the start of the holiday weekend around the Triangle Friday.

Does the route to the U.S.Senate lead through Saluda? It might for Democrat Kay Hagan from Greensboro.

WASHINGTON -- Mississippi, one of the nation's most conservative states, has not elected a Democratic senator in a quarter-century. It has voted for Republican presidential candidates in the last seven ...

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Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and ...

The White House said the nation has "lost a great public servant and true patriot." Former North Carolina Sen.

Here is Senator Dole's letter: Dear Mr. Beatty: Thanks you for taking the time to contact me about climate change.

UP: CLOSED-DOOR BUDGET TALKS. Such meetings always seem to increase as the legislature gets closer to working out a deal on the state budget.

The candidates who want to be our next governor are throwing in their two cents about offshore drilling.

Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., attend a press conference on immigration Thursday in Washington.

As summer sets in, visitors are once again flocking to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The North Carolina Department of Commerce will boost efforts to entrepreneurs launch new ventures through a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Landlords would have to equip rental homes and apartments with carbon monoxide detectors by January 2010 in legislation tentatively approved by the N.C. Senate.

U.S. Sen. John Ensign of Nevada is offering up a new way to define "great" and "terrific." By his math, his Republican Party can apparently win in November by losing.

Gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory joined top Republicans in supporting offshore oil and natural gas drilling Monday, saying it could relieve what's becoming a national energy crisis.

A group of nearly 1,000 conservative activists vowed Wednesday to "take back" North Carolina in this fall's elections at a rally in front of the Legislative Building.

I really don't agree with the idea of establishing a program by the government to help with battery development.

DOUG ABRAHMS * DAbrahms@gannett.com * Gannett News Service * published June 19, 2008 5:15 pm WASHINGTON Republican senators complained Thursday that a North Carolina judge nominated for a federal appeals court ...

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole criticized Democratic rival Kay Hagan's record on illegal immigration.

The major-party candidates for governor and U.S. Senate this year will meet each other in a public forum for the first time.