Senate Bill 1198 aims to increase penalties for harming service animals and police dogs but faces opposition due to concerns about self-defense protections.

Several months later, an aggressive attempt from House Republican leadership to prevent this from getting a vote backfired, prompting an irritated Speaker Mike Johnson to send House members home for ...

By the narrowest of margins Wednesday, the Senate voted to amend the Second Look Act, which gives long-term incarcerated ...

North Carolina enacted a rare energy law in the South in 2021 that directed power plant emissions be sharply reduced.

Legislators got an earful when they asked constituents to voice concerns about the homeowners associations that govern 80% of new housing in the state, including one resident who described foreclosure ...

After juvenile life sentences were banned, a bill to make youth sentencing reforms retroactive stalled last session ...

An obscure bookkeeping matter has become the latest flashpoint in Congress as Democrats accuse Republicans of violating ...

Tammie Farrugia, 34, and her partner Scott Marshall, 36, both had cases heard in the Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday, charged over their alleged involvement in the malicious damage of vehicles ...