Christina Koch hung a poster of the Apollo 8 “Earthrise” photo in her dorm room. Now, she is credited with taking “Earthset” on a mission to orbit the moon.

More than 2,600 people sued Chemours and DuPont over PFAS contamination in North Carolina. After eight years, the trial won’t ...

A baby’s photo album. Pottery tools. A coffee mug depicting Reba McEntire and a middle-aged man. These objects might be somebody’s treasures. But after being pulled from the waterways of Western North ...

Questions remain about cleanup at Braven Environmental, which had been hailed as a solution for dealing with plastic waste.

Former UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Chris Clemens. (Photo courtesy of UNC-CH) UNC-Chapel Hill and its trustees have settled a lawsuit brought by former Provost Chris Clemens. Neither side admitted ...

Studies have found districts tend to close schools that serve minority students first. The closure of a Bladen County school highlights the impact.

This story is published through our partnership with Inside Climate News. Mike Watters was running on two hours of sleep and one cup of coffee as he drove home to Grays Creek from the federal ...

Photographer Aycock Brown pitched the Outer Banks to the outside world. Now the barrier islands, once little known, welcome the world.

The straight-laced U.S. senator, who died in 2008, would have been scandalized by Trump, but the two men shared many political attributes. In early January 1973, Joe Biden, a newly elected, ...

The budget funds many of the governor's priorities, but it strips his power to make appointments to several state boards.

Two Orange County detention officers cannot avoid liability in a federal lawsuit alleging that their neglect led to a man’s death in 2020, a federal appellate court ruled last week. On July 2, a three ...

This story is copublished with The Chronicle of Higher Education. In the spring of 2023, administrators at UNC Greensboro announced that significant changes would be coming. Enrollment had dropped by ...