Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC Reports of crime and violence in North Carolina public schools decreased during the 2024-25 school year for the second consecutive year, according to an annual report from the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) presented to the State Board of Education this week. The report — which...

Andrew Jones/Asheville Watchdog On a 15-degree morning in January, a clinic in this small Yancey County community on the northern edge of Pisgah National Forest began to fill up with patients. An older couple in flannel pajamas sat together in the waiting room. A toddler waved as Patricia Hall walked...

Destinee Patterson/WRAL News Empty units sit side-by-side in Camelot Village seven months after Tropical Storm Chantal rocked Chapel Hill. One condo owner said the community has largely turned into a ghost town. Both renters and owners are wondering when it will come back to life. “I hope that progress will...

Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The Wilmington City Council is already contemplating a property tax rate increase to take effect this July, which could be in the range of 4 cents to complete capital projects and boost personnel pay — and that doesn’t include potential budget increases still to come. On...

Michael Koh/WCHL Chapelboro The ACC has fined UNC $50,000 after fans rushed the floor twice during the Tar Heels’ 71-68 win against No. 4 Duke at the Smith Center Saturday night. “The conference’s event security policy is designed to protect the safety and well-being of all student-athletes, coaches, officials and...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Students at three North Carolina universities who had gone to court to get early voting sites on their campuses will likely not have any during this primary election, after a federal district court judge ruled against them on Sunday. The College Democrats of North Carolina and...

Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Three months after an immigration enforcement crackdown in Charlotte left much of the city shaken, it’s still difficult to get clear answers about what federal law enforcement agents did. That includes who was arrested, where people were taken and why. Last November, U.S. Customs and Border Protection...

Ella Moore/The Duke Chronicle On Friday evening, around 40 demonstrators from Duke’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the student-run Duke Sunrise Movement, the Union of Southern Service Workers and seven other advocacy organizations gathered on East Campus to protest the University’s cost-cutting measures and demand Duke become...

Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News Inside a lab at North Carolina State University, large metal tanks hum as microorganisms grow inside a carefully controlled environment. It looks a bit like brewing beer — but instead of alcohol, these microbes can be used to make medicines like insulin, injectable cancer drugs and newer...

Jay Price/WUNC News Department of Veterans Affairs nurses demonstrate outside the Durham, N.C. VA Medical Center in April 2025 to protest proposed staffing cuts. According to Senate Democrats, the VA lost tens of thousands of workers in the past year, many from health care jobs. Leaders at the Department of...

Trey Nemec/CityView Ammie McRae Jenkins, the first Black student to attend High Point University and an activist who dedicated much of her life to preserving land owned by Black families in the North Carolina Sandhills, died on October 25. She was 84. “She was a genius,” Larry Dobbins, a member...

Ben Bokun/WNCN News Many local restaurants and stores in Durham closed their doors over the past couple of weeks due to dangerous winter conditions, losing out on potential sales. Lakewood Social is just one of those eateries impacted by the recent snow and ice. The owner, Joel Schroeter, told CBS...

Jason Stoogenke/WSOC News Former Charlotte City Councilwoman Tiawana Brown pleaded guilty to a federal charge Monday for lying to receive COVID-19 relief loans during the pandemic. Brown admitted to fraudulently obtaining more than $40,000 in government funds. Prosecutors also say she spent at least some of the money on personal...

Jenna Fryer/The Associated Press In the days following the 2004 Hendrick Motorsports plane crash that killed all 10 people aboard, Bill France Jr. and Mike Helton showed up at Rick Hendrick’s front door in Charlotte, North Carolina. France, terminally ill at the time, was the chairman of NASCAR, the stock...

David Ford/WFDD News Greensboro has a new resident: a giant robot and its winged companion. It’s the latest public artwork to be unveiled in the Gate City. The playful stainless steel sculpture “May-Bee and the Bot (In the Uncanny Valley)” is 28 feet tall, and glistens in the sun. Bot...