Four former governors say Josh Stein should focus on rebuilding Western North Carolina—and expect battles with the legislature.

These are The Assembly stories that made the biggest waves this year, from beach shades to porn shop allegations to mushroom ...

Asheville has welcomed tourism back after Hurricane Helene. But in Biltmore Village, recovery is still months away.

A few days before Christmas 2011, photographer Stafford Braxton was at Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley Mall when he noticed an older Black man with a white beard walking through the crowded shopping center.

A desire for more inclusivity spurred a North Carolina man to make Black Santas a holiday tradition. Now in its 12th season, Santas Just Like Me makes Christmas magic all over the state. The same ...

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As the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill entered the admissions season in October 2023, a member of the school’s Board of Trustees asked its chair to advise the group on how to recommend ...

As the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill entered the admissions season last year, that’s what trustee Jennifer Lloyd told board chair John Preyer the university said was trustees’ role in the ...

In January, Gov. Roy Cooper went to the Nash County elementary school he’d attended in the 1960s to declare 2024 the “Year of Public Schools.” He denounced the Republican-led General Assembly’s ...

This story has been updated to add comment from Eric Brinsfield. For more than 40 years, Chapel Hill had a “must-see” destination. No, not the Dean Smith Center, Kenan Stadium, or the North Carolina ...

A recent Saturday night at the Moses Cone Memorial Hospital Emergency Department felt different. It didn’t reflect the madhouse triage atmosphere of past years, when a standing-room-only crowd of ...