Video: Gen Z leader in NC says her peers are exhausted, but not checked out
Cardinal & Pine talks with Hannah Preston of Influence NC about Gen Z and politics.
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COMMUNITY
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Here’s how people in North Carolina are coping with the SNAP freeze
“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.”
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Concerns raised about treatment of pregnant women in ICE detention
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.
Oct
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Billy Ball Explains NC: PFAS and why some NC politicians might be making you sicker
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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Medicaid funding shortfall shutters statewide program helping moms and babies
The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of NC has been credited with reducing C-section births, boosting breastfeeding and cutting infection rates in the tiniest babies.
Oct
2025
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North Carolina researchers look into what could be a new kind of dinosaur
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.
Oct
2025
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How the shutdown is impacting military families in North Carolina and beyond
The government shutdown has left military families in North Carolina and across the country wondering when the paychecks will stop.
Oct
2025
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Civics 101: Fascism and why we need to know what that means in NC
We're talking fascism, autocracy, and authoritarianism in the second part of "Let's Get Civic-al," Cardinal & Pine's crash course on civics in NC.
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Post-Helene, Hendersonville art auction has ‘best year so far’
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.
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Fight continues for justice over PCB exposure at NC State
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.
North Carolina’s most heartwarming stories of 2025
| December 23, 2025
Affordability | ANIMALS | Chapel Hill | Community | CULTURE | food | groceries | HARDGATE | Hurricane Helene | LITERATURE | NEWSMAKERS | North Carolina | NORTH CAROLINA NEWS | PETS | RECREATION | SMALL BUSINESS | SNAP | WNC
Read this year’s top tales of do-gooders, good feelings, and other heartwarming stories from NC.
Nearly 1 million in NC to see health premiums skyrocket in 2026
| December 23, 2025
ACA | ACA tax credits | Affordability | big beautiful bill | congress | CULTURE | Federal Cuts | Federal Harm | HEALTH | health insurance | HEALTHCARE | insurance | LIFESTYLE | local politics | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | NC POLITICS | North Carolina | NORTH CAROLINA NEWS | north carolina politics | politics | premiums
Health insurance costs are set to rise in 2026 for many North Carolinians, after Congress decided not to vote on extending Affordable Care Act insurance tax credits, which were cut in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and expire at the end of the year.
Video: Man destroys nativity scene protesting ICE raids in NC
| December 22, 2025
CNN happened to cover a man wrecking a nativity scene in Charlotte protesting ICE raids in NC.
6 ‘good Samaritan’ acts in NC done by regular people
| December 22, 2025
Community | CULTURE | DINING IN NC | EAT LOCAL | EXTREME WEATHER | FAMILY | Federal Cuts | Federal Harm | food | HARDGATE | HEALTH | LIFESTYLE | Music | nc community | NEWSMAKERS | North Carolina | NORTH CAROLINA NEWS | RALEIGH | SNAP | WAKE COUNTY | WNC
Read six heartwarming stories of "good Samaritans" doing kind deeds in NC.
Report: Trash not a throw-away problem for NC, US
| December 22, 2025
Community | environment | Environment North Carolina Research and Policy Center | extended producer responsibility | food waste | garbage | landfill | LIFESTYLE | local politics | national politics | North Carolina | NORTH CAROLINA NEWS | OUTDOORS | recycling | TECHNOLOGY | trash | waste
A new report looks through America's trash – and the results aren't pretty.