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A judge ordered the county to cover partial costs of lawyers who have represented The Assembly and Border Belt Independent in ...

State House and Senate Republicans unveiled a budget framework on Tuesday that resolved several of their biggest sticking points in negotiations over the past year. Party leaders said they reached ...

Less than a decade ago, the Carolina Hurricanes were last in the league in attendance, and the Triangle’s NHL future was uncertain. Today they’re a model Sun Belt operation. Every seat was full at ...

Last year, Amber Holloway got an unusual letter with a blue “UNDUE” stamp in the corner. It said she no longer had to pay eight old hospital bills. “I thought it was fake,” she said. “I was glad, but ...

The rare move comes a year after the Board of Trustees delayed dozens of votes to confer tenure, sparking outcry from faculty ...

Nondisclosure agreements kept a land deal secret for months. Internal emails show officials were preparing for a Microsoft ...

The high-ranking DOJ lawyer was reared in the 1970s as an outsider—an Indian Sikh girl in a town with a Ku Klux Klan ...

Ralph Baric—the renowned public-health researcher whose work on coronaviruses helped make COVID-19 vaccines possible, but brought scrutiny in the process—will retire from UNC-Chapel Hill in June.

A handful of state legislative, judicial, and even congressional races haven’t gotten much attention but are worth tracking ahead of the March 3 primary. State Rep. Nasif Majeed caught many in his ...

Jerry Bledsoe, a titan among North Carolina writers, leaves a legacy that includes both beloved books and persistent grudges. What do we make of a complicated figure after his death? When Jerry ...