Lawmakers in South Carolina have passed an abortion ban while a judge in Montana was weighing restrictions there.

The Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature has approved and sent to the governor a ban on nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in response to last year’s overturning of Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Supreme Court.

North Carolina Republicans have filed a flurry of bills aimed at transgender youth as they look to capitalize on their newly attained supermajority.

A Democrat in the North Carolina state House has switched to the Republican Party in a move that gives the GOP veto-proof control of both chambers of the legislature.

Speculation is brewing in North Carolina that a Democratic state legislator may change her party affiliation.

North Carolina residents can now buy a handgun without getting a permit from a local sheriff.