The straight-laced U.S. senator, who died in 2008, would have been scandalized by Trump, but the two men shared many political attributes. In early January 1973, Joe Biden, a newly elected, ...

In a report recently provided to the State Board of Elections, Guilford County’s election director pushed back on the theory that some people got an incorrect ballot. Join thousands of North ...

Gov. Josh Stein on Tuesday signed the $34 billion budget lawmakers sent him, bringing an end to a more than year-long saga after state House and Senate Republicans resolved their stalemate over ...

Congress expanded a federal financial aid program to help students pay for job-training certifications. But only a tiny fraction of N.C. meet the requirements.

In late May, Granville County teachers and administrators met around a U-shaped table to review the results of an experiment that had pushed the small district north of Raleigh outside the mainstream ...

When professors want to dispute cuts, they turn to Howard Bunsis. Is he just telling them what they want to hear?

Decades ago, native Outer Bankers considered the ocean front, or "back of the beach" as they called it, to be a wasteland interspersed by shipwrecks and net houses. Getting your Trinity Audio player ...

This article was republished from The Charlotte Ledger. Grant Leonard abandoned his breakfast sandwich two bites in, the fork still stuck in a side of potatoes, courtside at Queens University of ...

Aycock Brown, small of stature but gigantic of heart, almost single-handedly brought N.C.’s barrier islands to the outside world.

Stories That Matter. Stories Shaping North Carolina. Join thousands of North Carolinians in-the-know about their state. Sign up, the newsletter’s free. Every weekday. Roberts’ mother, famed NPR ...