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A judge ordered the county to cover partial costs of lawyers who have represented The Assembly and Border Belt Independent in ...

Lawmakers hope to pass a full budget in a month. But they haven’t reached consensus on a number of priorities.

Less than a decade ago, the Carolina Hurricanes were last in the league in attendance, and the Triangle’s NHL future was uncertain. Today they’re a model Sun Belt operation. Every seat was full at ...

Last year, Amber Holloway got an unusual letter with a blue “UNDUE” stamp in the corner. It said she no longer had to pay eight old hospital bills. “I thought it was fake,” she said. “I was glad, but ...

The rare move comes a year after the Board of Trustees delayed dozens of votes to confer tenure, sparking outcry from faculty ...

Nondisclosure agreements kept a land deal secret for months. Internal emails show officials were preparing for a Microsoft ...

The high-ranking DOJ lawyer was reared in the 1970s as an outsider—an Indian Sikh girl in a town with a Ku Klux Klan ...

Ralph Baric—the renowned public-health researcher whose work on coronaviruses helped make COVID-19 vaccines possible, but brought scrutiny in the process—will retire from UNC-Chapel Hill in June.

These are the 2026 primaries in North Carolina that are expected to be the most competitive, consequential, or interesting—or all three. In-person early voting begins Thursday, and March 3 is the ...