A police presence in schools does little to improve safety, a new study highlights, instead increasing the chances that students who get into trouble will be sent to police officers instead of educators.
How one educator is changing lives, an NC exhibit reopens, and more in the week of Good News Friday. Happy Friday and welcome back to your weekly source of good news from North Carolina. We’ve got a lot this week with new and improved spaces, achievement...
NC has one of the largest veteran populations in the nation. And veterans often suffer from mental health and physical health issues. The head of Vets to Vets United is helping with rescue dogs.
North Carolina has the third-largest military population in the country, and is home to over 720,000 veterans. As Veterans Day approaches, there will be events from Jacksonville to Brevard celebrating and honoring service members. Veterans Day Luncheon, New Bern...
In Fayetteville, three community members—Lisette Rodriguez, Shawn McMillan, and Angela Malloy—have teamed up to reform their city's public safety system, arguing that the current system of policing and methods of crime prevention are not making the community safer or reducing crime as intended.
Every week, we round up the best good news in NC. This week, we have a flattering report on NC's climate for women entrepreneurs, and a special week for one of the state's biggest and best historically Black colleges.
For nearly three decades, families in underserved communities in eastern NC have been asking the state to fix their chronically underfunded schools. They talked to us about keeping the faith.
How Jefferson Griffin’s effort to overturn his election loss to Allison Riggs in North Carolina is essentially the world-eating “Nothing” from the children’s movie, “The Neverending Story.”
North Carolina's Lumbee have been waiting for generations for the federal government to fully recognize them, bringing with it financial benefits and rights. They're hoping support from President Trump will help them get it.
President Trump recently announced sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every country in the world, a move that will drive up costs for both consumers and small businesses, economists say. Some North Carolina business owners are speaking up about it.