Students walk across campus on Sept. 30, 2025, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kate Denning / Carolina Public Press The University of North Carolina System Board of Governors ...

Election watchers from political parties observe Granville County Board of Elections members scan accepted absentee-by-mail ballots on Oct. 13, 2020, in Oxford. File / Jordan Wilkie / Carolina Public ...

From absentee voting to early voting surges to controversies over polling sites, each NC county election director has eyes on ...

Nearly 2,000 women in Harnett County give birth each year. But the county’s only hospital no longer has a space fully equipped for them to deliver. Betsy Johnson Hospital in Dunn closed its maternity ...

From absentee voting to early voting surges to controversies over polling sites, each NC county election director has eyes on midterms.

Florida-based Paradigm promised jobs from a battery plant in storm-battered Burnsville. With no progress, Yancey Co. wants ...

Needle exchanges, disease testing, providing Narcan and other harm reduction efforts navigate complexities of Western NC communities.

A Wake County precinct official opens the doors to the John Chavis Memorial Park polling site at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, in Raleigh for the first day of early voting. Sarah Michels / ...

When Anderson Clayton took control of the North Carolina Democratic Party at 25 years old, she knew she needed to make some changes. The previous election cycle, Democrats had left a quarter of the ...

The NC Department of Public Instruction has a bold goal to boost public school enrollment. So far, there's not been much ...