After many unkept promises from companies in job-starved NC region, Edgecombe leaders ready to gamble on data center promise ...

Social-emotional learning, or SEL, is an older concept that's gained new prominence since COVID. Some NC right-wing groups ...

Asheville's Mission Hospital has faced federally imposed Immediate Jeopardy three times in recent years. Some critics seek NC ...

Registered Democrats did well in 2025 NC municipal elections. But whether that constitutes a blue wave or predicts one in 2026 is unclear.

Edgecombe County town of Speed faces NC Local Government Commission pressure to dissolve, after failing to comply with LGC ...

Court rulings, appeals, contradictory announcements and lack of food options leave recipients of SNAP in NC confused, in need of help.

Security personnel have become a ubiquitous presence at some NC libraries. Wake County says serious incidents have led to increased security.

North Carolina’s system of targeted economic development — economic distress tiers — was designed to distribute a tax credit that no longer exists. Today, the system persists, and various state ...

A consent order in a Disability Rights NC lawsuit against DHHS could increase community-based services access for people with disabilities. North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental ...

Potential loss of new hospital to AdventHealth comes as Mission Health faces lawsuits from workers, local governments, NC attorney general. An administrative judge decided May 10 to uphold the state’s ...

Editor’s note: This article, originally published March 29, 2022, is part 2 of the three-part investigative series Dodging Standards from Carolina Public Press, which examines North Carolina local ...