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

University officials are providing few details. They say the secrecy is necessary to build trust with future whistleblowers.

A settlement has been reached in the three-year litigation against Tyler Technologies over eCourts system, which has faced complaints across North Carolina. Tyler Technologies, the company behind ...

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

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.

David Hill is a freelance journalist. He previously covered economic development, aviation, manufacturing, banking, and workforce for the Triad Business Journal and similar topics for news ...