In a new Billy Ball Explains NC, we break down how the NC GOP took control of election boards, why students and Black voters are being targeted, and how these decisions fit into a national strategy to limit voting access.
Did you know the unit that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is based out of NC? In a new Billy Ball Explains NC, we take a look at why the military conflict in Venezuela is a BIG deal for NC's military population.
In the new Billy Ball Explains NC, we take on the Leandro case, a lawsuit over education equality that's still unresolved 31 years after it was filed. There are more than a billion dollars at stake for public schools.
NC Republicans' fury about a gay Santa book is one big performance, but it hurts real children.
Why don't undocumented people just become ... documented? Why do people immigrate illegally? In the new Billy Ball Explains NC, we take on America's broken immigration system, and ICE and Border Patrol's brutal policing of it.
NC Christmas tree farms lost thousands of trees when Helene rolled through western NC in 2024. But wherever you look in 2025, those tree farms say they're bouncing back.
Let's demystify the boogeyman—the single payer option for healthcare and universal healthcare. This is what keeps some conservatives up at night.
Every Wednesday, NC journalist Billy Ball unpacks the most important stories in NC and corrects the bad information.
In the latest "Billy Ball Explains NC," we take a look at what we can do to combat gerrymandering in NC and across the US.
In a new "Billy Ball Explains NC," we take a look at PFAS—aka "forever chemicals—their spread across North Carolina, and their connection to the 2026 US Senate race.
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