State police have advised local lawmakers across the country to be increasingly vigilant about their personal security as those members reel from a politically-motivated shooting in Minnesota that ...

State Sen. Sydney Batch, a Wake County Democrat who is the chamber’s minority leader, recently introduced a bill to make North Carolina’s judicial elections nonpartisan. North Carolina’s ...

Sydney Batch to succeed Sen. Dan Blue and Rep. Robert Reives for another term. Blue, according to a party release, declined another term. A published report says otherwise. Blue, a 75-year-old ...

After Senate Democrats chose Sen. Sydney Batch as the new minority leader, she started the work of leading her caucus in a new legislative session by making contact with those who control the ...

Dan Blue, a veteran legislator who led the caucus for more than a decade. Senate Democrats chose Sydney Batch, a former single-term House member who has represented Apex in the Senate since 2021 ...

Dan Blue, D-Wake, Senate Democrats decided to elect a new leader this year. Sen. Sydney Batch became Senate minority leader last month. She’s a family law attorney who represents western Wake ...

Republican Mark Cavaliero is running against Democratic incumbent Sydney Batch. Libertarian Patrick Bowersox is also running. District 17 covers Wake County. Get to know the candidates with our NC ...