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.

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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.

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

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

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 ...

How did NC State vs. UNC basketball rivalry become surpassed by UNC vs. Duke? Art Heyman played a role in creating the battle ...

Oregon Inlet claimed the life of a Wicked Tune star. For local fishermen, navigating its waters is the stuff of nightmares.

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 ...