Farmington Dragway in Davie County is among four Triad and Northwest North Carolina motorsports venues to receive funding toward infrastructure upgrading expenses.
Forsyth County has more than 500 uncounted ballots from the May 17 primary, counting absentee and provisional ballots.
Defeated Commissioner Ted Kaplan says he’s not ready to endorse former Winston-Salem Council Member Dan Besse, following Besse’s victory Tuesday in the Democratic primary for the at-large seat on the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.
Turnout in Forsyth County reached 16.5% percent in Tuesday’s primary, as more than 43,000 of the county’s 265,000 voters cast ballots.
Voters upset at least one incumbent Democrat and quite possibly two on the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners, according to complete but unofficial returns from the Forsyth County Board of Elections.
Kanika Brown appears the winner of the highest-profile General Assembly primary race involving Forsyth County.
RALEIGH — First-term U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn conceded his Republican primary race Tuesday to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, ousting the pro-Donald Trump firebrand from Congress after his personal and political blunders translated into constituent unhappiness.
RALEIGH — U.S. Rep. Ted Budd and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley won their respective Senate primaries on Tuesday, setting up a fall election matchup that should again test former President Donald Trump’s influence in North Carolina.
The polls open at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, and more than 250,000 Forsyth County residents are eligible to vote in contests that range from U.S. Senate to school board.
Nearly 400 people participated in an abortion-rights demonstration Saturday in downtown Winston-Salem to protest a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could overturn the constitutional right to abortion.
Saturday is the last chance to vote in the May 17 primary for people who are not already registered to vote, according to election officials.
The Democratic primary contest for the at-large seat on the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners is a showdown between an incumbent with long experience in both the North Carolina General Assembly and on the county board, and a challenger with many years on the Winston-Salem City Council al…
The Republican majority in the N.C. General Assembly likely will introduce bills to ban or further restrict abortions in the state, but Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will veto the legislation, local legal and political experts say.
The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's smokestacks in downtown Winston-Salem will be lit red during the month of May in honor of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, according to a news release.
A Democratic incumbent and two other Democratic candidates are running for the job of Forsyth County Clerk of Superior Court in the May 17 primary.
The leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court states there is no constitutional right to abortion services, and it would allow individual states to more heavily regulate or outright ban the procedure.
A pancake breakfast for fathers and sons will be held May 14 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Benton Convention Center, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday in a news release.
County officials don't have the power to fire the elections director.
A local historic marker commemorating the Winston-Salem Rescue Squad will be unveiled at 10 a.m. Saturday at the former Rescue Squad building at 2955 N. Liberty St., the City of Winston-Salem said.
Cooper will speak at 1 p.m. at the Elberson Fine Arts Center on the campus of Salem College, the college said.
The historical moment of Ketanji Brown Jackson being confirmed as the first Black woman to sit on U.S. Supreme Court will inspire young people to achieve that goal in their lives, an official at the Wake Forest University School of Law says.
The local chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. will stage a voter registration drive Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot of Samaritan Ministries at 414 E. Northwest Blvd. in Winston-Salem.
Nearly 14 years ago, the N.C. Supreme Court removed Mark Badgett from his district court judge's seat for misconduct and prohibited him from holding any judicial office. But on March 4, Badgett filed to run for Stokes County clerk of superior court. After a challenge from a local attorney, S…
After State Sen. Ham Horton died on Jan. 31, 2006, the executive committee of the Forsyth County Republican Party recommended that William Benjamin Miller Sr. serve the remainder of Horton’s term in the N.C. General Assembly.
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