Christina Koch hung a poster of the Apollo 8 “Earthrise” photo in her dorm room. Now, she is credited with taking “Earthset” on a mission to orbit the moon.

This is excerpted from They Stole A City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy and published with permission of Penguin Press. The campaign to reinstate white ...

More than 2,600 people sued Chemours and DuPont over PFAS contamination in North Carolina. After eight years, the trial won’t ...

For many families, the last day of school before summer break is marked by feelings of joy and accomplishment, a time to check off another milestone in their children’s educational journey. But at ...

How a small group of white men engineered the violent 1898 overthrow of Wilmington’s duly elected multiracial government.

raven Environmental stopped operating its Zebulon chemical recycling plant last year and began hauling the last of its equipment away this summer. The circular outline indicates the former location of ...

Former UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Chris Clemens. (Photo courtesy of UNC-CH) UNC-Chapel Hill and its trustees have settled a lawsuit brought by former Provost Chris Clemens. Neither side admitted ...

Questions remain about cleanup at Braven Environmental, which had been hailed as a solution for dealing with plastic waste.

This story is published through our partnership with Inside Climate News. Mike Watters was running on two hours of sleep and one cup of coffee as he drove home to Grays Creek from the federal ...

Studies have found districts tend to close schools that serve minority students first. The closure of a Bladen County school highlights the impact.