The North Carolina governor's office is one of the weakest in the country, and the state's Republican legislature wants to strip away even more power in the waning days of its GOP supermajority. Why it matters: A new proposal,

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted what have been lengthy sentences served by six criminal offenders in state prisons and granted pardons to two others.

Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Stein grew up in Chapel Hill. Here’s what else to know about his family, education and more.

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Democrat Josh Stein won the North Carolina governor's race on Tuesday, Edison Research projected, defeating Republican Mark Robinson, whose candidacy imploded following a CNN report that he had called himself a "Black Nazi" and made other offensive remarks on a pornographic website.