Many small colleges are trying free tuition to get students in the door. Others want to remain accessible to lower-income applicants.

A Charlotte lawyer—and lifelong Republican—with decades of blue-chip legal experience got the axe at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

A traditionalist religious order is building a new home in the woods of Western N.C. Not everyone is happy to see them.

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Head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says she’s going to “eliminate” FEMA. N.C. lawmakers say they're working to reform the ...

At Greensboro’s Next Chapter, Black stories are centered on and off the page. "We’re going to carry books that no one else is," says owner.

The Baric Lab doesn’t look like much from the outside. Certainly not like a central node in a once-in-a-generation global event. At one of his laboratories, tucked away in a Gillings School of Public ...

UNCW recently attracted criticism from pro-Palestinian activists. (Michael Spencer/UNCW) Earlier this month, the UNCW Department of History and the Hannah and Charles Block Fund for Jewish Studies ...

Last March, Oregon Inlet claimed the life of a seasoned mariner who had been featured on the reality TV show Wicked Tuna. For local fishermen, navigating the tempestuous waters is the stuff of legends ...

To reach Roanoke Island from the open Atlantic, sailors must navigate through Oregon Inlet, a 3-mile-wide stretch of sea that separates Pea Island from Bodie Island on the Outer Banks. The inlet is ...