From wages and taxes to schools, housing, health care, and crime, here's where North Carolina has gained—and lost—ground since 2010, by the numbers.

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In the mid-1990s, a one-column ad in magazines like The New Yorker beckoned readers to northern Chatham County. It consisted of a simple pen-and-ink rendering of a Belted Galloway cow known for its ...

The number of students at UNC Asheville fell 8% this fall, as the public liberal arts university struggles to stem years of enrollment woes that prompted major cuts to its budget and academic programs ...

A rezoning request for a planned church outside Chapel Hill is now a federal case, with religious-freedom groups and the U.S. Department of Justice weighing in.

Rewind to Feb. 15, 2021—Presidents Day. N.C. GOP chairman Michael Whatley calls an emergency session of the party’s Central Committee. Meeting via Zoom, the 30 members vote unanimously to censure one ...

Lake Lure residents recall the far-out happenings at a lakefront compound featured in an HBO docuseries about a doomsday cult.

State legislative candidate Shelly Headen has called for President Trump’s supporters to “experience sexual assault” and for ...

RTI International is expanding a facility that helps startups develop new technologies. The effort comes after federal funding cuts upended its business model.

UNC Health's plan to make nurses bid against each other for extra shifts was abandoned after a social media firestorm.

It was a humid night in July, and the patrons of Atomic Clock Brewing looked at me like I’d lost my mind when I asked if they knew who Dolly Parton was. Of course they knew Dolly: her charity, her ...