The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld two separate cases centered on the question of whether odor can be considered probable cause for a search. The cases—State v. Rowdy and State v. Dobson—have ...

Nondisclosure agreements kept a land deal secret for months. Internal emails show officials were preparing for a Microsoft ...

The rare move comes a year after the Board of Trustees delayed dozens of votes to confer tenure, sparking outcry from faculty ...

A judge ordered the county to cover partial costs of lawyers who have represented The Assembly and Border Belt Independent in ...

Lawmakers hope to pass a full budget in a month. But they haven’t reached consensus on a number of priorities.

House and Senate leaders have made an agreement on key budget sticking points, but there are still some policy disagreements ...

Jerry Bledsoe, a titan among North Carolina writers, leaves a legacy that includes both beloved books and persistent grudges. What do we make of a complicated figure after his death? When Jerry ...

Clarence Henderson speaks at a Trump campaign event in High Point, N.C., in September 2016. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz) Tucked inside the General Assembly’s last full budget, in 2023, was a little-noticed ...

In 1975, when Harmeet Dhillon was around 6 years old, her family moved to Smithfield, a small town in rural Johnston County. A billboard touting the Ku Klux Klan greeted them. The white supremacist ...

GOP Sen. Michael Lee says the bill would prevent sexual assault victims from being identified. Critics say it would protect perpetrators.

Ralph Baric—the renowned public-health researcher whose work on coronaviruses helped make COVID-19 vaccines possible, but brought scrutiny in the process—will retire from UNC-Chapel Hill in June.