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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A handful of state legislative, judicial, and even congressional races haven’t gotten much attention but are worth tracking ahead of the March 3 primary. State Rep. Nasif Majeed caught many in his ...

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 ...

North Carolina’s top Republicans have reached an agreement on key budget sticking points, but still have some policy disagreements to continue working out. House Speaker Destin Hall and Senate leader ...

For people in treatment for substance use disorder, the weeks after Hurricane Helene unraveled lives they’d spent years ...