Associated Press

North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson has vowed to remain in his race in advance of what he called the release of a media report against him. Robinson is the sitting lieutenant governor. He decisively won his GOP gubernatorial primary in March. He's been trailing in several recent polls to Democratic nominee Josh Stein. In a video released Thursday on X, Robinson said he wouldn't be forced out by “salacious tabloid lies.” He referenced a story coming from CNN. Robinson has a history of inflammatory comments that Stein had said made him too extreme to lead North Carolina.

The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that GOP-drawn voting maps should not have been declared illegal and upheld a photo voter identification law that had previously been struck down as racially biased. The Supreme Court also overturned a lower court's ruling that had allowed felons to vote after being released from custody but while still on probation or parole.

House Speaker Tim Moore says Republicans in the General Assembly are converging on a proposal to prohibit abortion in nearly all cases after the first trimester of pregnancy.

A prohibition on transgender girls playing on female sports teams in North Carolina schools has cleared a second legislative chamber. The Senate voted for the legislation Thursday. The House passed a similar bill the day before. The activity means the Republican-dominated General Assembly appears poised to work out a final compromise in the coming weeks and send it to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.

Multiple power substations in a North Carolina county were damaged by gunfire in an apparent act of criminal vandalism, leaving tens of thousands of people without electricity, authorities said. The power outage across Moore County that began just after 7 p.m. Saturday is being investigated as a criminal act, Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said. More than 40,000 electric customers in the county remained without power on Sunday morning

The Wake County grand jury asked the Wake district attorney on Monday to submit an indictment for consideration “against any and each” of the named members on the “presentment” document. No charges have been filed in the case.

A federal judge has ruled that abortions are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy in North Carolina.

Environmental and renewable energy groups have challenged the proposal by Duke Energy Corp. subsidiaries on how to reduce greenhouse gases in North Carolina in the next decade, saying it relies too much on natural gas and unproven technologies to succeed.

Attorney General Josh Stein was responding to Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore, who called on Stein and the state Justice Department to “take all necessary legal action” to lift an injunction from a 2019 federal court ruling that blocked the state ban.

Over a dozen North Carolina restaurants that closed during the coronavirus pandemic when government orders restricted their services can't be recompensed for those financial losses through their commercial insurance policies, the state Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday.