Complete coverage: House Bill 2

At least two companies and three musicians have canceled plans to come to North Carolina in response to House Bill 2, which requires people to use public bathrooms that correspond to their birth gender, excludes gay and transgender people from protections against employment and public accommodations discrimination and blocks cities and counties from extending such protections to them.

Organizations and politicians across the state and country released statements reacting to the HB2 bill written into law on Wednesday by Gov. Pat McCrory.

California's attorney general says North Carolina's repeal of a strongly criticized law doesn't protect LGBT people from discrimination. Consequently, he says the country's most-populous state will continue its ban on taxpayer-funded travel to North Carolina.

The controversy over House Bill 2 and its repeal last month may be dying down, but some Republican lawmakers don't seem to be ready to move on.

While Gov. Roy Cooper, top lawmakers and numerous corporate executives say Thursday's repeal of House Bill 2 puts North Carolina back on track for business recruitment, many others say the replacement legislation won't be enough to lure new companies or workers to the state.

As quickly as House Bill 2 was enacted 53 weeks ago, the controversial state law limiting LGBT rights and transgender bathroom access was knocked down on Thursday.

Sen. Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore held a 10:30 p.m. press conference Wednesday to announce that an agreement to repeal House Bill 2 has been reached with Gov. Roy Cooper.

As has happened repeatedly in recent months, what appeared as a deal to repeal House Bill 2 was only a mirage Tuesday and vanished within minutes of being announced.

Despite Republican assurances that North Carolina's "bathroom bill" isn't hurting the economy, the law limiting LGBT protections will cost the state more than $3.76 billion in lost business over a dozen years, according to an Associated Press analysis.

The NCAA gave North Carolina one last warning Thursday about the need for the state to repeal a law on LGBT rights or face being blackballed from hosting collegiate athletic championships for six years.

House Speaker Tim Moore says top lawmakers are discussion potential changes to House Bill 2 but said no deal was imminent.

House Bill 2 sparked a year-long battle over LGBT rights and nondiscrimination laws, but those on either side of the debate are no closer to seeing eye to eye.

One day before the anniversary of the passage of House Bill 2, Gov. Roy Cooper is softening his call for a so-called "clean repeal" of the controversial state law on LGBT rights and transgender bathroom access.

Members of the state House voted 44-74 to reject an efforts by Democrats to repeal House Bill 2, the controversial law dealing with LGBT rights passed nearly a year ago.

Despite Gov. Roy Cooper's call for finding common ground to move North Carolina forward, he and legislative Republicans continued to trade punches Monday night.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest lent his support Monday to Texas officials backing legislation to restrict access to public bathrooms in that state.

Gov. Roy Cooper says HB2 would lose if it was put up for a statewide vote. "It has cost us thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars," he told MSNBC Friday.

Sources familiar with plans for a major economic development told WRAL News that a company plans to bring as many as 1,500 jobs to Wake County with salaries averaging more than $100,000. The decision appears contingent on the repeal of House Bill 2.

Which public bathrooms transgender people are allowed to use was the major issue a year ago when state lawmakers hastily passed the state law now known as House Bill 2. But bathrooms have been subsumed by the overall LGBT rights debate as lawmakers try to undo the legislation.

Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, says he won't push forward with an effort to repeal and replace House Bill 2 without support from House Democrats. Those members, he said, are looking to Gov. Roy Cooper, who has expressed concern about the bill.

House Minority Leader Darren Jackson took to Twitter Monday to describe what he saw as the deal that could potentially resolve North Carolina's long fight over House Bill 2.

Gov. Roy Cooper on Sunday urged Republican lawmakers to return to the negotiating table to work on a repeal to House Bill 2.

After the NBA and the NCAA have moved events from North Carolina over House Bill 2, many are contemplating the future of the CIAA Tournament played in Charlotte this week.

Rep. Rodney Moore, D-Mecklenburg, said that he had hoped to help reshape the effort to repeal HB2. However, he said, GOP House leaders have indicated they're not flexible on certain points.

The NAACP is announcing plans for an economic boycott of North Carolina to protest laws enacted by the state's conservative General Assembly, including one limiting LGBT protections.

A bipartisan quartet of lawmakers on Wednesday filed a measure to repeal large swaths of North Carolina's controversial House Bill 2, the 2016 law that deals with LGBT rights and bathroom use.

Saying he doesn't want a state law limiting LGBT rights "to see its first birthday," Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday proposed another deal to repeal the controversial measure.

A pair of bills filed Thursday in the state House call not only for repealing the controversial House Bill 2 but also for casting a wider net for nondiscrimination in North Carolina. One would toughen the penalties for crimes in public bathrooms and locker rooms as well.

North Carolina could lose dozens of NCAA championship events over the next six years if legislation limiting protections for the LGBT community isn't repealed, the executive director of a sports group said.

Senate Democrats have filed a bill to repeal the controversial measure dealing with LGBT rights, but it faces a difficult road.

A deal with legislative leaders to repeal a bill that directs which bathrooms transgender people can use in some buildings is still possible, Gov. Roy Cooper said Monday after he spoke at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Charlotte.

Gov. Roy Cooper urged North Carolina business leaders Wednesday to support his efforts to repeal a state law limiting LGBT rights, expand Medicaid and boost school funding.

The tenuous compromise state Democratic and Republican leaders crafted last week to rescind a controversial law limiting LGBT rights may have collapsed under the weight of some ill-timed social media posts.

After hours of behind-closed-door meetings, parliamentary bargains, and plenty of bad blood, lawmakers failed in efforts to repeal House Bill 2. Democrats and Republicans point their fingers at one another.

A much ballyhooed plan to repeal a controversial state law that limits LGBT rights went down in flames Wednesday night after hours of negotiations between Republican legislative leaders and conservative members of their caucus and a last-ditch parliamentary maneuver to squeeze a bill through the Senate.

Lawmakers will return to Raleigh yet again on Wednesday for expected votes that would repeal House Bill 2, the controversial state law limiting LGBT rights.

Gov. Pat McCrory called lawmakers back to Raleigh for a special session on Wednesday and asked them to "reconsider" HB2, a bill that has garnered national opprobrium for how it deals with LGBT rights, particularly the use of bathrooms by transgender individuals.

The skills and circumstances that made Gov. Pat McCrory a popular moderate mayor of Charlotte didn't always translate to the state's top job, and McCrory had to acknowledge Monday that he would be a one-term governor.

Attorney General Roy Cooper has been an outspoken critic of a controversial state law on LGBT rights, but his win Monday in the fiercely fought governor's race doesn't guarantee an end to the legislation.

More than two centuries after the Mecklenburg Resolves were signed near what is now the corner of Trade and Tryon streets in Charlotte, firing the spirit of independence in the American colonies, the Queen City fired the first shots in a nationwide war over transgender rights.

The 30-second spot, which for now is only distributed through online platforms, criticizes Cooper for not defending HB2.

Rep. Chris Malone is the latest Republican to call for the repeal of House Bill 2. Polls show the law dealing with LGBT rights is unpopular with voters.

Emails sent to and from Gov. Pat McCrory and his staff show a governor who was both upset about Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance and wary of lawmakers' efforts to craft what would become House Bill 2.

With four weeks to go until Election Day, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and his Democratic challenger, Attorney General Roy Cooper, engaged in their first debate in four months Tuesday night, exchanging blows on issues from House Bill 2 to the State Crime Lab to voter ID.

The Institute for Faith and Family is spending $215,000 to promote House Bill 2, North Carolina's controversial law dealing with the use of bathrooms by transgender individuals.

The Daily Show on Comedy Central rented a food truck and then declined to serve people "by telling them they're gay." The bit was meant to make a point about House Bill 2.

Monday, Sept. 26, 2016 -- The New York City Comptroller, Trillium Asset Management, and Croatan Institute organized 58 investors to call for a full repeal of North Carolina's anti-LGBT law.

Despite big numbers, the numerous sporting events, concerts, conventions and business expansions that North Carolina has lost in recent months because of a state law limiting LGBT rights have created only a tiny ripple in the state economy, according to a rough analysis by WRAL News.

Mayor Jennifer Roberts quickly shot down on Monday any attempt to predicate a repeal of a state law many find discriminatory on the repeal of a Charlotte ordinance.

North Carolina's top legislative leaders held forth Sunday the possibility of repealing the controversial House Bill 2 if Charlotte City Council were to withdraw its local transgender nondiscrimination ordinance first.

A group representing restaurants and hotels said Friday that it has been working behind the scenes to broker a deal that could lead to the repeal of House Bill 2, but there's no guarantee anything will come from the effort.

The chorus of cries for a repeal of House Bill 2 is growing louder as the Atlantic Coast Conference on Wednesday followed the NCAA's lead and pulled its tournaments from North Carolina because of the state's insistence on maintaining a law that the college athletic organizations find discriminatory.

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced on Wednesday that it will move 10 scheduled conference championships, including the Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship, out of the state of North Carolina.

With the NCAA and ACC announcing this week that championship games will be moved from the state of North Carolina in protest of House Bill 2, the mayor of Cary is calling for change as the city stands to lose millions of dollars.

Sen. Tamara Barringer, R-Wake, says House Bill 2 has had "unintended consequences." Her Democratic opponent says Barringer "knew what she was doing" when she voted for the bill.

In the 24 hours after the NCAA cost North Carolina tens of millions of dollars by canceling championship events scheduled in the state, Democrats lawmakers called for a special legislative session to repeal House Bill 2 and stop the bleeding.

The NCAA on Monday announced that it would relocate seven championship events from North Carolina to other states based on the organization's commitment to an "inclusive atmosphere for all college athletes, coaches, administrators and fans."

Gov. Pat McCrory said business leaders "helped write" parts of House Bill 2. Officials with the North Carolina Chamber have repeatedly denied that assertion.

Gov. Pat McCrory says opponents of House Bill 2 want to allow boys to use locker rooms set aside from girls and urges voters to "do what's right."

IBM Chair and CEO Virginia Rometty says there's been no blowback from the tech giant's decision to speak out against North Carolina's HB2. In an interview she says the stand against the LGBT legislation was "expected" by IBM workers.

A federal judge said Monday that he needs more time before ruling on whether to put North Carolina's controversial House Bill 2 on hold until legal challenges to it are resolved.

Retired North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr has filed ethics complaints over economic development ads from New York State, alleging that they intrude on North Carolina elections because they mention House Bill 2.

An April email form the organizers of the World of Bluegrass festival suggests attendance could be hurt and future events could move due to House Bill 2. Local venues that host college sports tournament games also say future events could be warded off by the law.

Gov. Pat McCrory says emails leaked from the Democratic National Committee show Democrats ginned up the controversy that led to House Bill 2.

Education and economic opportunity are longtime planks in the Democratic Party platform, but the fight over transgender rights that has been raging in North Carolina for months has now entered the national political fray.

Raleigh entrepreneur Jesse Lipson, founder of Sharefile, which sold to Citrix, spoke at the Democratic National Convention Monday night and attacked NC HB2, the so-called "bathroom bill," saying, "Nothing scares away investment like hate."

As the fallout continues over the NBA's decision to pull the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, Gov. Pat McCrory on Friday fiercely defended House Bill 2 and accused the "political left in Charlotte" of generating controversy over the issue.

The NBA is not the only business eschewing North Carolina due to the controversial House Bill 2.

Opponents of North Carolina's House Bill 2 on Friday said the National Basketball Association's decision to pull its 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte was a "deep and preventable" loss.

The NBA pulled the All Star Game out of Charlotte because of HB2. As of yet, it doesn't appear the ACC is ready to follow. However, commissioner John Swofford plays a much quieter game.

The NBA is pulling the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte over North Carolina's controversial House Bill 2, which requires that people use public bathrooms corresponding to their birth gender and excludes the LGBT community from non-discrimination protections.

Duke has an opening on its men's basketball schedule because of the state law that impacts LGBT people.

Tax and the presidential campaign are more likely to drive voters to the polls and influence their decisions than North Carolina's controversial bathroom law.

Businesses including Apple, IBM, IKEA and Marriott have signed onto a brief opposed to House Bill 2.

Raleigh could lose as much as $40 million in convention business from the state's controversial law on transgender rights.

The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge to halt implementation of a North Carolina law requiring people to use the bathroom matching the gender on their birth certificate.

A New York business website is using the controversy surrounding HB2 to garner attention of the North Carolina business community.

Lawmakers voted to restore the ability to sue in state court for wrong termination Friday night. This is a small piece of the controversial HB2 bill dealing with LGBT rights.

Republican members of the General Assembly met behind closed doors with Gov. Pat McCrory Wednesday. While potential changes to the controversial House Bill 2 were discussed, no agreement has been reached to modify the bill.

Former Eagles' guitarist Joe Walsh said Wednesday that proceeds from two upcoming North Carolina shows will be donated to organizations fighting against House Bill 2.

Top lawmakers say they are hoping to leave town by Saturday, and they report no firm plans to roll back pieces of the controversial House Bill 2.

While small groups have worked on a rollback to House Bill 2, there doesn't appear to be any commitment from House or Senate leaders to move forward. Critics of the bill says anything short of repeal is inadequate.

In response to controversial House Bill 2, rock bands Death Cab for Cutie and Chvrches will turn two upcoming shows in North Carolina into benefits for LGBT rights organizations.

Gov. Pat McCrory's office said Thursday that his administration plans to handle the state's defense against a federal lawsuit over House Bill 2.

While other performers have canceled concerts in North Carolina to protest House Bill 2, Dead & Co. says its concert in Charlotte next week will go on as planned, and the group will donate $100,000 to groups working to repeal the controversial state law.

In a procedural step on the way to the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday declined to revisit their April decision in favor of a Virginia transgender high school student's right to use the restroom of his choice.

Despite the controversy over House Bill 2 and transgender rights, businesses along the North Carolina coast reported little backlash over the state law on Friday as the Memorial Day holiday weekend kicked off.

University of North Carolina officials on Friday hired two elite law firms to defend the 17-campus system against a federal lawsuit over House Bill 2 and asked Attorney General Roy Cooper to pick up the tab.

Gov. Pat McCrory says Congress needs to bring "clarity" to issues surrounding the use of bathrooms and locker rooms by transgender individuals.

A group of conservative and liberal leaders say they hope to pave the way for conversation and accommodation on HB2.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch reiterated Tuesday that the federal government believes North Carolina's House Bill 2 violates the civil rights of transgender people, and she took issue with blacks who say officials shouldn't equate their fight for racial equality with transgender bathroom access.

​While visiting Charlotte for the National Football League's spring meetings, San Francisco 49ers' CEO Jed York also met with advocates and members of the North Carolina transgender community.

The pop rock group announced Friday that they would not play a Sept. 11 show in Charlotte or a Sept. 12 show at PNC Arena in protest of House Bill 2.

Under pressure from state lawmakers and LGBT advocates, the Charlotte City Council postponed a discussion Monday night about House Bill 2 and a potential vote on the city's non-discrimination ordinance.

As the national debate over LGBT rights and North Carolina's House Bill 2 continues, many businesses and even Triangle-area high school students say they are suffering from the growing number of cancellations by high-profile musicians.

The top North Carolina executive for Cisco, which is one of the largest high-tech employers in Research Triangle Park with some 5,000 workers and contractors, holds a teleconference to discuss the controversial House Bill 2. Cisco says it is "extremely disappointed and concerned" about HB2.

Maroon 5 was scheduled to play a show at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte on Sept. 11 and another at PNC Arena in Raleigh on Sept. 12. But the band canceled them to protest North Carolina's controversial House Bill 2.

Emails sent to state Commerce Department officials in the wake of House Bill 2's passage reflect both problems and praise stemming from the legislation.

In a message to fans posted on his official website Tuesday, violinist Itzhak Perlman wrote: "I have decided to cancel my May 18th concert in North Carolina with the North Carolina Symphony as a stand against House Bill 2.

A drug-maker that spent six weeks deciding whether to scrap plans for a new North Carolina factory after the state passed a law limiting some LBGT protections says it's going ahead.

"Moral Monday" demonstrators have targeted everything from voting rights to teacher pay to unemployment compensation over the past three years. With House Bill 2 making headlines nationwide in recent weeks, the homegrown legislative protest movement has added the controversial state law to its list of targets.

Politicians in Texas, Arkansas and elsewhere vowed defiance -- and other conservative states could follow suit -- after the Obama administration told public schools across the U.S. on Friday to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.

Public schools must permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity, according to an Obama administration directive issued amid a court fight between the federal government and North Carolina.

The Obama administration made clear Thursday it won't withhold money for North Carolina while a legal fight plays out over the state's law on bathroom use by transgender people.

Protests over House Bill 2 continued Wednesday night as critics say the bill could cost the state billions of dollars in education funding.

Rock group STYX and former Eagles member Don Felder will donate proceeds and auction off a guitar to benefit local LGBT charities when they play a show in Cary next week.

Statehouse lobbyists in Raleigh say they and the businesses they represent are being bullied by state lawmakers seeking to silence business opposition to the new law. House and Senate leaders say that's not the case.

North Carolina's business lobby says it wants changes to a state law that limits protections to LGBT people, but only offering specifics on a provision that blocks workplace discrimination lawsuits from state courts.

One day after the state and federal governments sued each other over House Bill 2, a nonprofit representing unidentified North Carolina public school students and parents filed a court action Tuesday seeking to prevent federal education funds to the state from being withheld because of the controversial state law.

Gov. Pat McCrory's spokesman says that travel to defend HB2 on national news programs is state business and paid for by the public.

University of North Carolina system leaders insisted Tuesday that the 17-campus system doesn't violate anyone's civil rights, but yet they find themselves trying to negotiate a tricky position as the state and federal governments battle over the controversial House Bill 2.

The latest effort to roll back House Bill 2 was filed Tuesday in the state House.

The U.S. Justice Department has sued Gov. Pat McCrory and the state of North Carolina to block the bathroom provisions of North Carolina's House Bill 2.

Gov. Pat McCrory is asking a federal court to declare that the controversial House Bill 2 does not discriminate against gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people.

As legal battles emerge over whether North Carolina's House Bill 2 discriminates against LGBT people, state education leaders say local school boards must decide where transgender students should use the bathroom.

North Carolina government and university officials were given until Monday to tell federal attorneys whether they would stop enforcing a new law blocking LGBT protections, particularly provisions requiring transgender people to use public restrooms that correspond to their biological sex.

Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh said Friday that a new state law that limits discrimination protections for gay and transgender people concerns him.

North Carolina officials are still trying to determine the stakes in a possible showdown with the federal government over a state law that the U.S. Department of Justice says violates the civil rights of transgender state workers and students.

As controversy over House Bill 2 roils campuses and boardrooms across the state, former Gov. Jim Martin weighs in with a simple suggestion: Listen to each other.

President Barack Obama's Justice Department has ordered North Carolina to stop enforcing a portion of a new state law preventing transgender state workers from using the bathroom of their choice.

Gov. Pat McCrory speaks at the North Carolina Chamber Annual Government Affairs Conference following a Wednesday afternoon announcement from the Obama administration that House Bill 2 violates federal civil rights laws.

House Speaker Tim Moore said the U.S. Justice Department position that House Bill 2 violates the Civil Rights Act is a "huge over-reach by the federal government."

Just as it has done across the state, House Bill 2 could soon be dividing coastal communities.

Attorney General Roy Cooper, the Democrat running for North Carolina governor, says House Bill 2 is costing the state jobs. When asked about Donald Trump being the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, he called the businessman divisive.

The Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament has joined the growing list of events that are being pressured to relocate following the passing of House Bill 2.

U.S. Education Secretary John King said he hopes North Carolina will repeal House Bill 2, but he declined to speculate on federal action in response to it.

As the number of canceled concerts, conventions and business expansions related to a controversial state law continues to mount, North Carolina's largest business organization remains strangely silent about the law.

Gov. Pat McCrory says HB2 was "an issue the left started," criticizing Obama administration policy.

Saying military veterans are being unfairly turned away from too many jobs, state Rep. Billy Richardson, D-Cumberland, says he plans to file a bill next week that would extend discrimination protections to veterans as well as active-duty members of the military.

State lawmakers held an emergency session last month to head off a pending ordinance in Charlotte that would have allowed transgender people to use public bathrooms that align with their gender identity, but local authorities say there's little inclination to enforce the new state law.

The chorus to repeal a North Carolina law that prohibits discrimination protections from being extended to gay and transgender people is growing among religious leaders across the state.

Hundreds of thousands of Target customers have pledged to boycott the retailer after it announced that it would allow employees and shoppers to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity.

State lawmakers returned to Raleigh on Monday night to formally begin their 2016 legislative session, but only after a day of sound and fury over action the lawmakers took a month ago.

The General Assembly police have started arresting House Bill 2 protesters in House Speaker Tim Moore's office, resulting in cheers of support from other protesters.

Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas, pop singers touring together on the Future Now tour, announced on Twitter Monday afternoon that they would forgo two scheduled North Carolina appearances in protest against House Bill 2.

Sky 5 provides aerial coverage of a rally on Halifax Mall in downtown Raleigh by supporters of House Bill 2.

Sen. Dan Blue, D-Wake, discusses the economic impact House Bill 2 has had on North Carolina.

More than 150 mental health professionals across North Carolina sent a letter to Gov. Pat McCrory on Friday, seeking a repeal of a new state law they say "has created a climate of fear and confusion" among transgender people.

Cartoonists from around the state and around the country look for humor on both sides of House Bill 2.

President Barack Obama on Friday joined the growing chorus of voices calling on North Carolina legislators to overturn a new law that sets discrimination policy statewide.

The Blue Man Group announced on their website that they would be canceling a June 17-19 engagement at the Belk Theater at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in opposition to the legislation.

Chairman Brian France told a meeting of sports editors this week that NASCAR does not like "any discrimination, unintended or not" and is "working behind the scenes" to change North Carolina's HB2.

A 17-year-old high school student in Winston-Salem is the latest to join a lawsuit challenging House Bill 2.

Some may call it a statement, but Sarah McBride calls it normal. The 25-year-old campaigns and communications manager for LGBT Progress at American Progress made a stop in Charlotte Thursday, according to her Facebook page, to speak with Councilwoman LaWana Mayfield. The topic of conversation: HB2.

A boutique hotel in downtown Durham has hung new signs on its public bathrooms in response to a controversial state law.

A new ad features clips of reporters talking about business losses to the state as a result of the controversial House Bill 2.

Hours after Pearl Jam called off a Raleigh concert, lead singer Eddie Vedder explained his reasons to a Hampton, Va., audience.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Thursday that transgender people should be able to use whichever bathroom they choose, and North Carolina is "paying a big price" for trying to prevent that.

The CEO of the greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce is standing by the organization's demand that the North Carolina General Assembly repeal House Bill 2 even as its own website includes angry reaction to the decision. Not all Chamber members supported the decision, either. But Tim Giuliani says the demand "puts policy over politics."

House Bill 2 is costing the Old North State a considerable amount of money almost on a daily basis. What's worse? We've yet to feel the burn of larger, future hits to the bottom line.

The protest against House Bill 2 has moved beyond signs and marches, and people are now using beer and concerts to make their feelings known.

A coalition of religious groups that pressed the General Assembly to pass House Bill 2 last month quickly scrapped a plan Wednesday to have state lawmakers sign a pledge to support it.

Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger vowed Wednesday that a new law that sets discrimination policy statewide will remain in place despite growing cries from the business community and others to repeal it.

A policy barring a transgender student from using the boys' restrooms at his Virginia high school is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Rain Dove has built her career by breaking the gender mold. The model, who turned heads at New York's Fashion Week, identifies as gender neutral, often posing for similar photos in both masculine and feminine attire, with dramatically different results.

Public school students make up one of the largest groups directly affected by House Bill 2. The new law presents problems for the state's transgender students and conflicts practices at several school districts that allow students to use the restrooms that correspond to their gender identity.

Some local governments are making changes to their local contracting policies as a result of House Bill 2. Owners are minority and women owned businesses are wary of the impacts.

Rock bands Pearl Jam and Boston have joined the parade of performers to cancel concerts in North Carolina over a new law setting discrimination policy in the state.

Gov. Pat McCrory fiercely defended a new law that sets North Carolina's discrimination policy during a Sunday morning interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," saying government shouldn't interfere with how businesses treat their employees and customers.

Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and Attorney General Roy Cooper, his Democratic challenger in the November election, took the stage in front of the North Carolina Association of School Administrators Friday afternoon in Wilmington to discuss teacher pay.

Renowned acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil said Friday that it is canceling all of its shows in North Carolina because of the state's new law setting discrimination policy.

Raleigh-based Lulu, a global provider of self-publishing services, is the latest tech firm to join the protests against North Carolina's HB2. Meanwhile, 170 startups and emerging firms have now signed a petition formally protesting the bill.

North Carolina State University has lost out on some potential business relocations to its Centennial Campus because of a new law that sets discrimination policy statewide, Chancellor Randy Woodson said Thursday.

As the law that sets North Carolina's discrimination policy continues to make national headlines, both supporters and opponents are accusing each other of working with radical outside groups.

Singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper says her June 4 show at Raleigh's Duke Energy Performing Arts Center will be turned into a "day to build public support to repeal HB2," and she says she'll donate all the proceeds from her concert to Equality North Carolina.

An ear-piercing protest against House Bill 2 took place outside the Governor's Mansion Wednesday night as demonstrators came armed with air horns.

Lawmakers said Wednesday that there's no chance they will repeal a provision of a new law that requires people to use the public bathroom that matches their birth gender, but they said other portions of the law could be tweaked.

Following on the heels of Bruce Springsteen, who canceled an April 10 show at the Greensboro Coliseum in opposition to the law, Ringo released a statement saying he would no longer play a scheduled June 18 show at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre.

North Carolina voters say a new law has hurt the state's image and job prospects and should be completely or partially repealed, but they believe people should be required to use public bathrooms that correspond to their birth gender, according to a WRAL News poll released Tuesday.

More than 80 percent of voters say a politician's position on House Bill 2, which creates a statewide discrimination policy, will "strongly" or "somewhat" impact their vote on the gubernatorial campaign and other races.

WRAL News hired SurveyUSA to conduct a poll of North Carolina voters on their attitudes toward House Bill 2 and its fallout.

Gov. Pat McCrory says parts of a recently passed law governing restroom usage should be left in place. But he says lawmakers should reverse part of the measure that prevents people from suing for wrongful termination in state courts.

Deutsche Bank on Tuesday announced that it will freeze plans to create 250 jobs at its Cary location due to House Bill 2, which sets statewide discrimination policy.

Hundreds of people who support a new state discrimination law made their position known Monday in a rally outside the State Capitol.

In a statement, Bruce Springsteen asserted that North Carolina's new discrimination law attacks the rights of LGBT citizens to sue when their rights are violated in the workplace.

The statewide discrimination law that lawmakers passed last month could have a "chill" on University of North Carolina campuses, UNC President Margaret Spellings said Friday.

UNC President Margaret Spellings told chancellors of the 17-campus system this week that they need to abide by a new state law requiring people to use bathrooms that correspond to their biological gender but said no anti-discrimination policies need to be changed.

PayPal, an online money transfer service, has canceled its plans to open an operations center in Charlotte, citing North Carolina's anti-discrimination law.

If North Carolina's governor and General Assembly reverse course on the controversial HB2 law, technology firms from small to large will have had a role in that political concession. If they choose not to, then just as a year ago when a so-called religious freedom bill was discussed, the politicos certainly are more aware now of how big a voice that some leaders in the tech industry can generate in opposition.

​A group of people gathered outside the governor's mansion Thursday evening, asking state leaders to hold their ground as backlash against House Bill 2 continues.

Potential long-term economic impact is hard to assess, but tourism spending is already taking a hit with the High Point Furniture Market and Asheville reporting multiple cancellations due to the new law.

Does the newly enacted law setting statewide limits on public sector nondiscrimination policies threaten federal education funding? The answer rests with a federal appeals court.

Gov. Pat McCrory blamed reporters Wednesday for creating controversy around House Bill 2, the measure passed last week to overturn Charlotte's transgender nondiscrimination ordinance. Meanwhile, business groups continued to weigh in against the bill Wednesday.

A spokesman for North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is criticizing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after he banned nonessential publicly funded travel to North Carolina after that state's Legislature blocked anti-discrimination protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people.

A letter from more than 80 leading CEOs and business leaders-many from technology companies - calls on Governor Pat McCrory and the North Carolina General Assembly to repeal the radical provisions in House Bill 2 that was rammed through the legislature last week. Signers include top execs from Facebook, Airbnb, Apple, Salesforce, Lyft, Dropbox,Tumblr,Linkedin, and other tech firms.

Chapel Hill's Franklin Street was closed for nearly three hours Tuesday night as demonstrators gathered in protest of the state's new anti-discrimination law.

Calling North Carolina's new anti-discrimination measure "a national embarrassment," Attorney General Roy Cooper, the Democratic nominee for governor and challenger to incumbent Republican Pat McCrory, said Tuesday that his office would not defend the law in any court challenge.

Calling North Carolina's new anti-discrimination measure "a national embarrassment," Attorney General Roy Cooper, the Democratic nominee for governor and challenger to incumbent Republican Pat McCrory, said Tuesday that his office would not defend the law in any court challenge.

The Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously passed a resolution in a special meeting Monday night calling for the repeal of the state's new anti-discrimination measure and supporting the rights of the LGBT people.

Gov. Pat McCrory says it is the media, not his administration, that has gotten the facts around House Bill 2 wrong. He launched an unusual campaign to counter the criticism over the weekend.

Gov. Pat McCrory says the media is missing the boat on HB2. But does he have all his facts straights on the law crafted to respond to Charlotte's transgender nondiscrimination ordinance?

Two transgender people and a lesbian law school professor filed a federal lawsuit Monday to challenge a new North Carolina law that blocks local governments from passing anti-discrimination rules and requiring transgender students to use bathrooms assigned to their biological sex.

House Bill 2 is generating national and international conversation, and much of the discussions are about the potential economic fallout for North Carolina.

With the passing of House Bill 2 on Wednesday, our state's lawmakers brought unneeded attention and risked losing some major sporting events -- including the NBA All-Star Game. For what?

A proposal that codifies a statewide nondiscrimination policy in employment and public accommodations and prohibits North Carolina cities or towns from enacting stricter guidelines was expected to be signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory late Wednesday after clearing the General Assembly in less than nine hours.