If you’re hunting for the perfect place to lay down roots, be sure to keep reading to discover the 100 most highly rated cities for raising a family.

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If you’re hunting for the perfect place to lay down roots, be sure to keep reading to discover the 100 most highly rated cities for raising a family.
Experts across the state — from parents and educators to business leaders and policymakers — agree that nothing less than North Carolina’s economic future is at stake without investment in early care and education.
Find out how many North Carolina cities rank on this list.
The Democratic nominees are set, but with voting rights and abortion rights in peril, three conservative candidates are on the primary ballot.
When you’re the first to do something, it’s hard to find a mentor. Whoever follows Durham’s Nida Allam won’t have that problem.
Stumped on gifts for the North Carolina sports fan in your life? Try one of these holiday-themed gifts from North Carolina colleges and professional teams.
Storytelling, theater, music, and Indigenous food, C&P’s guide to celebrating North Carolina’s native population properly.
How turbulent times and the racial justice movement have informed one of North Carolina’s most decorated poets, Jaki Shelton Green.
After serious blood clots developed in six women, states like NC are halting the use of Johnson & Johnson vaccines for now.
Halifax County faced failing facilities, racial inequality, and a brutal pandemic to restart classroom learning.
The white supremacists who overtook the US Capitol got their start in places like Chapel Hill, where UNC authorities failed to recognize the dangers sparked by Silent Sam.
David Price, the longtime rep from NC, spoke to Cardinal & Pine as violent Trump-backing rioters threw the Capitol Building into chaos.
From tragedy to advocacy to the 2020 election, behind her rise to becoming a trailblazer in NC politics with big goals.
Voting among young people surged in NC in the 2018 election. Organizers are hoping for an even bigger windfall in 2020.
Without a national coronavirus strategy, colleges face testing students and quarantining them on their own, creating havoc as schools attempt to reopen around the United States.
As party conventions heat up, Biden and President Trump offer starkly different tax plans for the country. NC experts tell us what it means.
A Cardinal & Pine investigation found for-profit beauty schools got double to triple what NC’s public higher ed schools received in pandemic relief aid.
Labs in NC are taking more than a week to give test results because of surges in cases and supply chain issues. That’s making it hard to stop the disease.
Researchers at Duke say they’ve discovered a new, more infectious, strain of coronavirus that appears to have emerged as the dominant strain.
One of the world’s largest Christian denominations banned same-sex marriage. But a 2020 wedding in North Carolina defied the church.
North Carolina bills — backed by GOP and Democrats — allocate federal dollars for schools, small businesses, hospitals, medical research and more.
The University of North Carolina System struck a deal with the Sons of Confederate Veterans to transfer ownership of the statue to the group. A judge threw that deal out last week.