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Trump campaign switches North Carolina director amid controversy

By Caroline Metzler | August 25

The Donald Trump campaign recently hired a new state director for North Carolina amid a string of changes three months before the November election.

Hearing delayed in Duke Energy coal ash settlement

By Benji Schwartz | August 25

Duke Energy and North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality postponed a hearing so they could continue negotiations over a $6.6 million fine ...

Graduate assistants at Duke, other universities granted collective bargaining rights

By Danielle Chemtob | August 25

Graduate assistants at private universities now have the right to collectively organize thanks to a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board Tuesday ...

NC Senate race heats up with challenger Deborah Ross

By Sam Killenberg | August 24

A little-known former North Carolina legislator has surged ahead in the polls over incumbent Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., for his seat in the U.S. Senate. ...

Q&A with joint professor David McNelis on using nuclear energy

By Kelsey Mason | August 24

David McNelis, a joint research professor at UNC, is a proponent of using nuclear energy as much as possible. He recently wrote an op-ed in the (Raleigh) ...

NC scientists pitch in to help fight spread of Zika virus

By Kent McDonald | August 24

Zika isn’t in North Carolina, and researchers across the state are working hard to keep it that way.

NC private prison among 14 impacted by Department of Justice announcement

By Danielle Chemtob | August 23

When Elizabeth Forbes, director of the prisoner advocacy group NC-CURE, received a call from a family whose incarcerated son was planning to commit suicide, ...

North Carolina sees a decade without any executions

By Kent McDonald | August 23

When Samuel Flippen was executed in the early hours of Aug. 18, 2006, by lethal injection, he locked eyes with his parents and mouthed, “I love you.” ...

Federal court finds 'discriminatory intent,' rejects N.C. voter ID law

By Corey Risinger | July 29

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned North Carolina’s voter-identification law Friday, acknowledging the state’s history of racial and ...

Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton spoke in the North Carolina State Fair Grounds Exhibition Center on Wednesday, June 22.

The Clinton campaign stopped in Raleigh Wednesday

By Cole Stanley | June 23

During former North Carolina governor Jim Hunt's time in office, the state experienced the largest period of economic growth in its history, bolstering ...

Tied Supreme Court decision disallows judicial retention elections, for now

By Jared Weber | May 17

North Carolina voters will have more than a “yes-or-no” option when casting ballots in the state Supreme Court primary this June, after the state’s ...

New bill would revoke education, transportation funding to 'sanctuary cities'

By Cole Stanley | May 12

For years, many North Carolina municipalities, including Asheville, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, have supported what have come to be known as "sanctuary ...

Anti-sodomy laws still on books in NC

By Kent McDonald | February 18

Oral and anal sex is still legally prohibited in North Carolina and 15 other states.

North Carolina sees state growth in population according to U-haul study

By Mali Khan | February 18

More people are packing their bags and moving to North Carolina than are leaving the state, according to a recent study conducted by U-Haul.

NC Cherokee among tribes granted access to federal crime database

By Olivia Slagle | November 12

Background checks and criminal filings just got more accessible for ten American Indian tribes, as the Department of Justice granted them access ...

8th Circuit Court contradicts contraception

By Audrey Wells | September 27

The Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate might be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court following contradictory rulings in several circuit courts ...

Former congressman speaks to empower American citizens

By Anica Midthun | September 24

Barney Frank, former Massachusetts's representative andthe first member of the U.S. Congress to marry someone of the same sex while in office, spoke at ...

Safe Campus Act bill would change process of reporting sexual assault

By Grant Masini | September 22

Republican sponsors of a U.S. House of Representatives bill hope to change the process of reporting sexual assault on college campuses.

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II speaks about the history of voters' rights in the U.S. at the rally on Thursday.

The NAACP lead a march and rally in Raleigh on Thursday as part of "America's Journey for Justice," a 806-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to Washington D.C. Hundreds gathered in the Bicentennial Plaza to protest for voters' rights.

NAACP rallies around voting rights

By Tat'yana Berdan | September 4

Hundreds of North Carolinians marched for voting equality in Raleigh on Thursday night during the North Carolina leg of America’s Journey for Justice ...

Free-climbing accident kills UNC alumna

By Haley McDougal | September 4

Tyler Strandberg, 28, liked to knit toboggans for at-risk boys with their favorite superheroes at Christmas. The 2009 UNC graduate dressed her rescue ...