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 ...

If there was ever a moment that best encapsulated Chapel Hill, it unfolded Wednesday morning: A protest of a few hundred demonstrators sandwiched between the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity house and a ...

Nash County is home to three state legislative races that could make or break a GOP supermajority in North Carolina.

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

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

Two years into legalization, the gaming industry considers North Carolina a big success. But what residents are getting is not what was promised—and it’s dangerously addictive. As the composition of ...

When Alex Sink was a little girl growing up in Mount Airy in the 1950s and ‘60s, her grandmother had a rule: no Siamese twins talk. “We were under strict orders not to say anything about it,” Sink ...

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

After hiring Bill Belichick and Michael Malone, the price of Tar Heel sports is going up. But it’s not clear how much, or if revenues are following suit.

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. Dave Masters could no longer ignore the storm as trees cracked and the swollen river roared. It was dark outside, but through the ...