Congressional ethics investigators say North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler did not act inappropriately when a residential development that he was involved in sought lake-access rights from the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The mayor of a western North Carolina city plans to challenge Democratic Congressman Heath Shuler’s re-election effort next year.

Hendersonville Mayor Greg Newman has officially announced his bid for the U.S. House of Representatives, N.C. 11th Congressional District.

A national political writer believes there’s more than voting twice against the stimulus that landed western North Carolina Congressman Heath Shuler at the top of fellow Democrat and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “bad list.“

The massive financial plan to ease the financial crisis will get at least two votes in favor of the package that an earlier version didn’t receive when it was defeated on Monday.