Avery County has ramped up coronavirus testing in the last week, but still hasn’t found its first confirmed coronavirus case.

State officials shuttered public schools for the rest of the academic year. But what about private schools? North Carolina is one of 44 states (along with Washington D.C.) that have announced that public school campuses will be closed for the rest of the year,...

African-Americans make up less than a quarter of the state’s population, but nearly 40 percent of its confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths.