Doug Burgum has yet to be confirmed as the new leader of the Department of the Interior but a contentious Indian Country ...

News of President Donald Trump’s move to grant full federal recognition to the Lumbee tribe was met with joy and caution.

Federal recognition for the nation’s ninth largest Native American tribe has gotten a nod from second-term Republican ...

President Trump signed an executive order supporting the Lumbee Tribe's federal recognition, a goal Senator Tillis commends ...

President Trump made good on a campaign promise to ask the Department of the Interior to recognize the Lumbee people of North ...

DUPLIN COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — Five people were arrested in Duplin County Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, after a drug investigation. Michael Earl Smith was charged with: Two counts manufacturing a ...

President-elect Donald Trump has previously said if a bill to give federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe gets to his desk, he will sign it into law.

North Carolina ranks as FORBES' Best State for Business for the third straight year (2017 was its first time on top). With one of the highest net migration rates in the U.S., people have been ...

Tillis has opposed several tribal-related bills in an attempt to get senators to support his own bill to federally recognize the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina. He called out the leaders of the ...

“Judge Jefferson Griffin has not just refused to concede–he has taken the astonishing step of seeking to toss the ballots of more than 60,000 legal North Carolina voters.” Both voting rights ...

She clerked for state Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jackson and later became a partner at McGuire Woods, a large international law firm with offices in North Carolina. Public Safety: Eddie ...

President-elect Trump said Friday the U.K. is making "a very big mistake" in its energy policy, and the country should "open up the North Sea" for oil and gas exploration and "get rid of" wind farms.