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No. 24 North Carolina women’s basketball snaps losing streak, outlasts UNCG 81-66

| December 6

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'A way to remind people that we are still here': N.C. celebrates Native American Heritage Month

By Makenzie Mills | November 6

In October 2021, the Biden Administration officially declared November as national Native American Heritage Month because it concludes the traditional ...

N.C. Recovery Practitioners Network to aid research in public school districts

By Grace Whittemore | November 6

The N.C. Recovery Practitioners Network is a partnership made up of the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, the UNC School of Education and other institutions. ...

North Carolina sees an increasing number of partisan school board elections

By Abigail Keller | October 30

Flu, other respiratory illness cases rising per state dashboard

By Ella Aluise | October 26

Jeff Jackson joins race for state attorney general after being drawn out of his district

By Ethan E. Horton | October 26

Environmental organizations react to provisions in state regulatory reform bill

By Libby Wakefield | October 22

House Bill 600, or the Regulatory Reform Act of 2023, would affect environmental provisions for pipeline companies, as well as the hog and poultry industries. ...

Gov. Roy Cooper proclaims Manufacturing Week to highlight industry in N.C.

By George Leggett | October 16

Gov. Roy Cooper proclaimed the week of Oct. 1 through Oct. 7 as N.C. Manufacturing Week. North Carolina’s manufacturing industry ranks 8th in the country ...

State awarded $6.3 million for conservation easements in Neuse River Basin

By Kaitlyn Cano | October 15

The federal grant will aid in the distribution of conservation easements in the Neuse River Basin. Evan Davis, the director of farmland preservation at ...

'A travesty for representative democracy': NCGA budget provisions affect public records law

By Sophia Fanning | October 12

The North Carolina General Assembly passed the long-awaited 2023-25 state budget at the end of September. Legislators wrote one provision that exempts ...

N.C. Land and Water Fund awards $45 million for natural spaces

By Ella Aluise | October 11

The N.C. Land and Water Fund Board of Trustees met to award $45 million of grants — out of $98 million in requests — for projects that work to protect ...

State leaders discuss legislation on affordable breast cancer screenings

By Ella Aluise | October 10

N.C. Sen. Sydney Batch (D-Wake), a breast cancer survivor, asked Gov. Roy Cooper to organize the roundtable discussion to help push the legislation H.B. ...

NCDHHS initiative to support agricultural workers' technology access receives $6 million

By Sierra President | October 9

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services received a grant from the National Institute of Health to support agricultural workers' access ...

Pro-choice organizations, legislators react to preliminary injunctions on abortion ban

By Grace Whittemore | October 9

“Our advocacy is going to be focusing on, first of all, making sure people can get care within the confines of the law we have in place,” Tara ...

Air pollution in North Carolina sees historic lows, according to new report

By Defne Önal | October 6

Jim Warren, the executive director of NC WARN, a clean energy nonprofit, said some communities benefit from the reduction in air pollution less than others, ...

New report shows increased participation, success in AP exams for N.C. students

By Caroline Horne | October 5

From last year, the number of students in North Carolina taking at least one AP exam increased by 11.2 percent, compared to the national average of a ...

American historian celebrates 101 years of learning

By Liv Reilly | October 2

Bill Leuchtenburg celebrated his 101st birthday last Thursday. As a celebrated historian and UNC professor emeritus, he has rubbed elbows with former ...

General Assembly approves teacher raises, private school vouchers in new budget

By Emma Hall | October 2

The N.C. General Assembly passed the 2023-25 state budget on Sept. 22 after months of debate between Republican leaders about where state funds should ...

North Carolina voters struggle to identify their elected officials, Meredith Poll shows

By Olivia Gschwind | October 2

“We need to have familiarity with our elected officials so that we can hold them accountable,” David McLennan, professor of political science and ...

Federal judge places injunction on parts of North Carolina's new abortion law

By Ethan E. Horton | September 30

A larger challenge to North Carolina's four-month-old abortion law will continue, but a provision requiring surgical abortions to be performed in hospitals ...

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Take a Child Outside Week aims to promote outdoor engagement and exploration

By William Becker | September 25

Take a Child Outside was founded as a website in 2007. It was inspired by author Richard Louv’s 2005 book Last Child in the Woods, which calls attention ...