The Western North Carolina Republican maintains his relationships with female staffers were friendships and not sexual ...

Neither of North Carolina's Senate candidates is facing the scrutiny on the campaign trail that a one-on-one forum might raise.

Universities like UNC-Chapel Hill major cuts to research funding, but the pipeline for new grants is shrinking. Researchers have been left in limbo.

Peter Gartrell is a communications and research consultant in Durham. He is working on a book and documentary about Sugar Hill Records. Write to him at peter@gartrellpublicaffairs.com.

The Senate candidate won praise for declaring three players innocent as AG in 2007. Critics wish he’d done more for other defendants.

Ninth graders in N.C. are held back more often than students in other parts of the country. How can schools ensure they're ready to move on?

What's behind grade inflation, and does it even matter? Plus, the impact of sports gambling in North Carolina and our favorite college courses.

The rate at which students are held back a grade has fallen. But there's a growing divide on when the intervention is most effective.

On a recent July morning, before his sermon on resisting revenge, David Chadwick served his congregants a brief update on the church’s real estate situation. After a year of searching, Chadwick and ...

An analysis of legislators’ voting records shows that seven of 170 members haven’t missed a single vote since 2025. Several others, however, have been frequently absent. North Carolina lawmakers don’t ...

An annual tradition brings people back to the land their families lost to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park nearly a century ago.