North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper leaves his job next week after eight years. It's a span in which the southern Democrat picked ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, worked with and against a Republican-controlled legislature on issues like ...

Dwight Jordan was 18 at the time of his conviction for murder, and his commuted sentence makes him eligible for parole.

The Democratic governor has a storied career in NC politics and now he is finishing out his second term as governor. Here's ...

NC Governor Cooper and Governor-elect Stein file a lawsuit challenging GOP changes to the State Board of Elections ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has issued a statement following a shooting at the Food Lion grocery store involving a ...

Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of six people in North Carolina prisons and granted pardons to nine others. The governor plans more clemency announcements before the end of the year. "Ensuring ...

Roy Cooper will soon hand off his title of highest politician in the state to fellow Democrat Josh Stein. So the question ...

Stein and Cooper argue that Republicans’ changes violate the separation of powers established in the North Carolina ...

North Carolina law gives the governor control over elections. Republican state legislators have been trying unsuccessfully to change that ever since Roy Cooper became governor and are pursing a new ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and First Lady Kristin Cooper after the governor's farewell address at Nash Community College ...

Two inmates serving time for crimes around the Charlotte area have been granted clemency by North Carolina Governor Roy ...