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Federal judges rule Trump must fund SNAP benefits through the shutdown
| November 3, 2025
Two federal judges have ruled that President Trump must fund SNAP benefits through the shutdown, but these important food benefits have already been disrupted.Video: Protesters removed from NC legislature over GOP-backed gerrymandering
| November 3, 2025
Protesters chanted “Racist maps make racist reps” outside a NC legislative meeting ahead of Republicans' vote to gerrymander the state's Congressional maps again.Here’s how people in North Carolina are coping with the SNAP freeze
| November 3, 2025
“My biggest worry is keeping food on the table for my children,” said one North Carolina parent of the SNAP freeze. “Parents like me are doing everything we can to survive, and sometimes it becomes a daily struggle.”So your insurance dropped your doctor. Now what?
| November 3, 2025
Nationwide, contract disputes are common, with more than 650 hospitals having public spats with an insurer since 2021. They could become even more common as hospitals brace for about $1 trillion in cuts to federal health care spending prescribed by President Donald Trump’s signature legislation signed into law in July.How these two puddings became North Carolina’s unique Thanksgiving tradition
| November 1, 2025
Turkey and pumpkin pie are great, but NC has two unique additions to its Thanksgiving menu. Read on to learn about these festive state delicacies.Asheville is the most haunted city in North Carolina, & these 3 places prove it
| October 31, 2025
Asheville has a uniquely haunted history. Here are three sites that prove it’s the spookiest city in NC.Concerns raised about treatment of pregnant women in ICE detention
| October 31, 2025
With federal immigration operations increasing in North Carolina this year, limited information has been shared about Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees who are pregnant and a nonprofit group helping women in crisis is working to change it.Billy Ball Explains NC: PFAS and why some NC politicians might be making you sicker
| October 31, 2025
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.Medicaid funding shortfall shutters statewide program helping moms and babies
| October 30, 2025
The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of NC has been credited with reducing C-section births, boosting breastfeeding and cutting infection rates in the tiniest babies.North Carolina researchers look into what could be a new kind of dinosaur
| October 30, 2025
North Carolina researchers say they've unraveled a long-running mystery into a mysterious tyrannosaur skeleton that they say is a new kind of dinosaur.How the shutdown is impacting military families in North Carolina and beyond
| October 30, 2025
The government shutdown has left military families in North Carolina and across the country wondering when the paychecks will stop.Video: UNC student speaks out against GOP-backed gerrymandering in North Carolina
| October 30, 2025
A UNC student laid into North Carolina lawmakers as they prepared to gerrymander the state's voting maps for President Trump.
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Here’s how people in North Carolina are coping with the SNAP freeze
| November 3, 2025
“My biggest worry is keeping food on the table for my children,” said one North Carolina parent of the SNAP freeze. “Parents like me are doing everything we can to survive, and sometimes it becomes a daily struggle.”So your insurance dropped your doctor. Now what?
| November 3, 2025
Nationwide, contract disputes are common, with more than 650 hospitals having public spats with an insurer since 2021. They could become even more common as hospitals brace for about $1 trillion in cuts to federal health care spending prescribed by President Donald Trump’s signature legislation signed into law in July.Asheville is the most haunted city in North Carolina, & these 3 places prove it
| October 31, 2025
Asheville has a uniquely haunted history. Here are three sites that prove it’s the spookiest city in NC.Concerns raised about treatment of pregnant women in ICE detention
| October 31, 2025
With federal immigration operations increasing in North Carolina this year, limited information has been shared about Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees who are pregnant and a nonprofit group helping women in crisis is working to change it.Post-Helene, Hendersonville art auction has ‘best year so far’
| October 27, 2025
The western NC town of Hendersonville, one of many communities still recovering after Helene rolled through in 2024, shattered their fundraising record this weekend for the "Bearfootin" Auction.Fight continues for justice over PCB exposure at NC State
| October 27, 2025
Members of the North Carolina State University community are still seeking justice over cancer-causing toxins which caused the closure of one of its buildings.Good News Friday: The NC food banks stepping up as federal shutdown threatens SNAP
| October 24, 2025
North Carolinians are spreading kindness and care this week: from NC food banks stepping up to Asheville being named the “Nicest Place in America.”Opinion: AG Jeff Jackson visits Fayetteville to remind FEMA a promise is a promise
| October 23, 2025
In Fayetteville, NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson calls on FEMA to honor their promise to build a badly needed bridge. Jackson's office has filed a lawsuit against the federal agency over FEMA's cancellation of $200 million in funds.
