North Carolina's latest Democratic governor was sworn into office on Wednesday, as Josh Stein succeeded Roy Cooper in a top ...

In his final day in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday changed the justice resolved through legal prosecutions ...

New North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein took several actions on Thursday to help the short- and long-term recovery from Hurricane ...

January 1 is the official swearing-in ceremony and public inauguration events will happen on January 11 and 12.

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.

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009. A ...

NC Governor Cooper commutes two sentences and grants two pardons, highlighting a commitment to justice reform.

Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina on his last day in office.

Roy Cooper is no stranger to politics. Born and raised in North Carolina, Cooper got his start in public service with the NC ...