Many small colleges are trying free tuition to get students in the door. Others want to remain accessible to lower-income applicants.

A Charlotte lawyer—and lifelong Republican—with decades of blue-chip legal experience got the axe at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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At Greensboro’s Next Chapter, Black stories are centered on and off the page. "We’re going to carry books that no one else is," says owner.

A traditionalist religious order is building a new home in the woods of Western N.C. Not everyone is happy to see them.

Western North Carolina is used to musical expressions of old-time religion, but perhaps none quite as old as the Marian Friars Minor, a religious order following a lifestyle St. Francis of Assisi ...

Head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says she’s going to “eliminate” FEMA. N.C. lawmakers say they're working to reform the ...

To reach Roanoke Island from the open Atlantic, sailors must navigate through Oregon Inlet, a 3-mile-wide stretch of sea that separates Pea Island from Bodie Island on the Outer Banks. The inlet is ...