A new year is upon us and with it, some important changes in state government. As a result of the November election, North ...

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.

As one of his last acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row to life ...

In his final day in office, Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentence of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina.

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper will leave the mansion. Sweaters, driving, sports and maybe the Senate are in his future.

The WCU Political Science Department Chair compares it to the race in 1984 where two-term North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt ...

Roy Cooper oversaw a booming state economy in his eight years in office, but some of the biggest jobs projects have yet to ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the ...

Stein has been the attorney general for the past eight years, following Cooper in the elected law-enforcement post that ...

Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday reduced the sentences of two people in North Carolina prisons and granted pardons of forgiveness ...