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NC governor elections already too close to call

By Audrey Wells | September 4

Roy Cooper, now N.C. Attorney General, takes an early lead over Gov. Pat McCrory in polling for the next gubernatorial election.

NC lottery draws losing card with critics

By Benji Schwartz | September 4

While the state legislature considers expanding the N.C. Education Lottery, experts claim it reaps low rewards and bears an unseen cost to the state — ...

Clinton and 'The Donald' seen as untrustworthy; Biden trumps

By Marisa Bakker | September 2

A new poll shows that despite their early leads, presidential hopefuls Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump are suffering from low trust and likability ...

Data shows race influences marijuana arrests

By Lauren Kent | August 31

Marijuana usage is roughly the same across all races. But predicting who gets caught is black and white.

Chapel Hill mayoral race draws 3 candidates

By Rachel Herzog | August 31

In his fourth campaign for mayor, incumbent Mark Kleinschmidt finally has some competition.

NC teachers to receive one-time $750 bonus

By Nick Niedzwiadek | August 26

By Nick Niedzwiadek Senior Writer The state’s two-month overdue budget glacially neared completion Wednesday as the legislature reached an agreement ...

Carrboro residents split over proposed shopping center

By Shantan Krovvidi | August 26

Carrboro residents are divided over plans for a new shopping center in town.

Target shooting halted in NC forest

By Benji Schwartz | August 26

Responding to hundreds of complaints, the National Forest Service issued an emergency closure order in July prohibiting target shooting in eastern North ...

Driver's education funds drying up during NC legislature budget fight

By Corey Risinger | August 26

Shelby High School Principal David Allen has watched a dwindling number of student drivers pull into his school since North Carolina reduced its funding ...

Proposed sales tax bill could divide urban, rural counties in NC

By Charles Talcott | August 26

A bill in the N.C. legislature could reallocate hundreds of millions of dollars from urban retail centers like Chapel Hill to rural communities — and ...

Trump, Deez Nuts looking good in North Carolina

By Joe Martin | August 24

Donald Trump and Deez Nuts are surging in recent North Carolina polls, but analysts say current predictions are likely to change.

UNC early voting site moves from Hillel to Chapel of the Cross

By Shantan Krovvidi | August 19

Despite being an early voting site for only a year, North Carolina Hillel will be replaced by the Chapel of the Cross as the early voting site for the ...

K-12 funding up in the air as budget fight continues

By Marisa Bakker | August 18

The battle over the North Carolina budget may result in a few casualties.

UNC Professor discusses Confederate monuments

By Audrey Wells | August 17

W. Fitzhugh Brundage is a UNC history professor who focuses primarily on American history since the Civil War.

First GOP debate on Thursday anything but low key for candidates

By Benji Schwartz | August 7

Political analysts expecting the first Republican debate Thursday night to to be relatively relaxed were in for a rude awakening.

NAACP members meet in Orange County, call for historical accuracy statewide

By Avishai Halev | August 6

Fifty years ago today, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, banning literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that had been implemented ...

Voting law trial underway in Winston-Salem

By Nicole Caporaso | July 22

A case that will determine the legality of the highly contested 2013 voter ID law continues to be heard in federal court in Winston-Salem.

Group pushes for recognition of Hindu holiday in schools

By Courtney Jacobs | July 16

The Universal Society of Hinduism is encouraging North Carolina schools to recognize Diwali, a five-day festival of lights that celebrates the last harvest ...

NC defies national trend on community college affordability

By Nicole Caporaso | July 16

Though federal lawmakers introduced legislation last week that would make two years of community college free, the N.C. Senate budget proposal increases ...

Senate proposes teacher assistant cuts

By Nicole Caporaso | July 9

Thousands of N.C. teacher assistants are uncertain of their job status come August as they await the state legislature’s final budget for the next two ...