Multiple Durham schools close as teachers protest pay, education funding in NC
Wednesday's school closings come after weeks of uncertainty in Durham. School staff are angry about pay and underfunding of public schools.
Wednesday's school closings come after weeks of uncertainty in Durham. School staff are angry about pay and underfunding of public schools.
When GOP lawmakers opened up North Carolina’s wetlands for development, coastal waterkeeper Riley Lewis got busy organizing her neighbors.
On the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, here’s a look at all the times North Carolina’s lawmakers tried to disrupt abortion care.
NC was a hotspot for hate in King’s lifetime. But it was also the home of civil rights pioneers. So Martin Luther King Jr. was often here.
North Carolina expanded Medicaid last year in part because President Biden’s 2021 American Rescue Plan offered a financial incentive that will have equally huge effects on rural healthcare services.
When North Carolina lawmakers allocated $835 million to shore up mental health infrastructure in 2023, none of the money was allocated to meet the specific needs of trans patients.
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the likely GOP nominee for governor in 2024, wrote that schools should eliminate science and social studies through the 5th grade.
There are now three lawsuits against the new congressional election maps drawn by the GOP-controlled legislature. Each says that they drew them to intentionally dilute the voting power of Black North Carolinians.
Leo Williams is an up-and-coming political leader with a deep background in education. We talked to him about being the mayor of his adopted city, and the pressures of leading in tumultuous times.
North Carolina used American Rescue Plan dollars to fund wage increases for at-home caregivers and launch a fund to recruit and retain workers.