The announcement comes a day before newly-confirmed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is scheduled to visit the area.

As part of their big comeback, black bears are returning to central North Carolina, where they’ve been missing for decades.

The draft would change how student activity fees fund college campus initiatives.

Those long, dry periods are taking a toll on N.C. soil health.

A quartet of Republican judges ruled Thursday along party lines to overturn the court’s precedent. At stake is a multi-billion dollar plan to provide state funds to improve public education in North Carolina.

The North Carolina Supreme Court overturned its own 2022 decision in the long-running Leandro school funding case.

Most of the money is for debris removal and road repair.

Democrats in North Carolina are scrambling to turn out rural Black voters and say the party cannot win the state without them. Although Democrats are normally strong with Black voters, they tend to fall short in rural areas.

North Carolina is working on a major overhaul of its math standards that state officials hope will better connect what students learn in the classroom to the real world.

The U.S. Department of Energy is offering $1.9 billion in funding for transmission upgrades, including replacing conductors, installing better technologies to monitor the grid and transmitting power across regions.