North Carolina’s top Republicans have reached an agreement on key budget sticking points, but still have some policy disagreements to continue working out. House Speaker Destin Hall and Senate leader ...

While Penelope Gatlin was checking in her 13-year-old son for his doctor’s appointment in Chapel Hill in December, a UNC Health receptionist told her she needed to pay $450 before he could be seen.

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.

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

On December 11, Dare County resident Richard Burrus posted a 23-second audio clip on social media that he claimed revealed former Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett using the N-word and joking about ...

Less than 10 regular business hours. That’s how long health care executives gave the public to digest their plans to merge Raleigh and Charlotte’s largest hospital systems. The Wake County Board of ...

The man accused of killing a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light rail train has twice been found incompetent to stand ...

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This story is republished through our partnership with NOTUS. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis admonished Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over her “failure” in leading the department in a Senate ...