James Richardson, a Greenville man serving two life sentences for a 2009 drive-by double homicide he maintains he did not commit, spent much of the past year in a legal limbo familiar to many North ...

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 ...

The budget funds many of the governor's priorities, but it strips his power to make appointments to several state boards.

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.

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.

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

The country’s only state-funded agency devoted to investigating post-conviction innocence claims has survived an attempt by state Senate Republicans to abolish it last year. And it has a new name.

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 ...

In late May, Granville County teachers and administrators met around a U-shaped table to review the results of an experiment that had pushed the small district north of Raleigh outside the mainstream ...

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 ...