New year, new restaurants! From barbecue joints to sushi spots, discover the most exciting North Carolina restaurant openings of 2026.
In the new Billy Ball Explains NC, we take on the Leandro case, a lawsuit over education equality that's still unresolved 31 years after it was filed. There are more than a billion dollars at stake for public schools.
By the time the Army Corps of Engineers is finished, 35 million cubic yards of silt and sand, plus the creatures that live in it, would be scraped and slurped from the Cape Fear River.
Proposed rules that would require hundreds of industrial manufacturers and public sewer plants across the state to test the wastewater they discharge into rivers, creeks and streams for three types of PFAS and 1,4-dioxane will go out for public comment next month.
When everything looks bleak, look to the creatives. This week, catch a classical music performance in Greenville, one of two shows by alt-country star Jason Isbell, or view the lights at Biltmore.
The town of Franklin, NC, took the steps this week to return a crucial cultural site to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Here's what to know.
A nonpartisan organization recently ranked NC at the bottom of the nation for public education funding in several metrics, including last in the nation for school funding effort.
Why a proposed data center in Fayetteville poses a risk to the environment, to neighbors, and to locals' pocketbooks.
The Trump administration might have shut down the IRS' Direct File program, but there are still ways to file your taxes for free in NC.
NC's Lumbee Tribe is headed for federal recognition after decades of waiting. Cardinal & Pine Senior Editor Billy Ball talked about it recently on PBS NC's "State Lines."
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