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How a family swimming spot at Pisgah National Forest in NC became ‘a trap’ for an ICE raid

August 11, 2026

In western NC, ICE agents raided a swimming hole in Pisgah National Forest. Here’s what to know.

Food insecurity is hitting thousands of NC children—and it’s following them into the classroom

March 9, 2026

More than 580,000 NC children rely on SNAP to help keep food on the table. On school mornings in North Carolina, some children arrive already exhausted. School teachers and nurses across the state report seeing the signs: difficulty concentrating, irritability, and complaints of headaches and stomach aches before lunch. In many cases, the cause is…

From Minneapolis to your block: Real people are proving politics isn’t just for watching

February 27, 2026

Consuming political news isn’t the same as building political power. From Minneapolis to small-town America, rural organizer Gwen Frisbie-Fulton writes that real change starts with local organizing and civic engagement. Someone once told me this story: Anthropologists visiting an Aboriginal village showed them a newspaper clipping about an earthquake that destroyed a town halfway across…

NC’s Republican supermajority in the General Assembly is no more

November 6, 2024

It means that, with Democrat Josh Stein winning the governor’s race, Republicans in the NC General Assembly will have to work with Democrats or risk Stein’s veto.

Good News Friday: Signs of life abound in North Carolina film industry

February 20, 2026

North Carolina film leaders are bullish about the state’s prospects for movie and TV productions, a decade after state leaders launched a grant program. That, and more positive stories from around NC, in today’s Good News Friday.

Mark Robinson and Michele Morrow pose a threat to women and kids, warns Anderson Clayton

April 23, 2024

The state’s Democratic Party chair believes North Carolinians deserve better than a six-week abortion ban and the defunding of public schools that could occur under top Republican candidates like Mark Robinson.

VIDEO: NC Dems introduce a ‘Children’s Bill of Rights’

May 16, 2024

North Carolina Republicans have starved public schools for over a decade, state Democrats said last week, creating a mess of widespread staff shortages and limited resources. Though Democrats have introduced more than 230 bills since 2011 to solve these problems, Rep. Julie von Haefen said in a news conference on Wednesday, Republicans blocked, buried, or…

Opinion: If NC Democrats want impact, they need to be more competitive in state legislative elections

September 17, 2025

There are at least 15 state House and Senate races that were decided by less than a 5% margin in the last election. That’s where NC Democrats need to concentrate their efforts if they want to one day have a larger say in state policy.

Opinion: As a rural Ohioan, I see J.D. Vance for who he is

August 9, 2024

Vance’s career has been built on a phony image of him as a product of and de facto spokesperson for poor, rural Appalachians, despite the fact that he was raised in a middle-class family in Middletown, Ohio – a city of about 50,000 people situated between Cincinnati and Dayton.

Early voting begins today. Here’s what to watch for in the 2026 NC primaries

February 12, 2026

The 2026 NC primaries are about to kick off, setting up key congressional, state legislative and judicial elections in November.