ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — On Friday, July 4, President Donald Trump signed the 'Big Beautiful Bill' after the House GOP gave ...

The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday that includes multiple controversial LGBTQ policies. Democrats objected to a GOP ...

Titled the Fostering Care in NC Act, the law gives the state Department of Health and Human Services more power to hold ...

Rep. Sydney Batch, with her husband J. Patrick Williams and sons Mason and Grant, have their photo taken as the N.C. General Assembly convenes in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, January 9, 2019.

Batch, also from Wake County, was elected to the House in 2018 by less than 1,000 votes, lost a reelection bid, and was appointed in 2021 to the Senate. She won reelection in 2022 and again this year.

After a decade of being led by longtime Sen. Dan Blue, D-Wake, Democrats in the state Senate decided to elect a new leader this year. Sen. Sydney Batch became Senate minority leader last month.

Sydney Batch, a Democratic lawmaker in the North Carolina Senate since 2021, stated that legislation prohibiting wearing masks in public in North Carolina dates back to the 1950s, ...

North Carolina Senate Democratic Leader Sydney Batch has fewer staff than predecessor Dan Blue, and doesn’t control Blue’s General Assembly office location.

North Carolina state Sen. Sydney Batch, D-Wake, speaks during a hearing in Raleigh, NC. By Paul Specht March 28, 2025 Democrat wrongly says NC ‘always had nonpartisan judicial races’ until ...