North Carolina’s top Republicans have reached an agreement on key budget sticking points, but still have some policy disagreements to continue working out. House Speaker Destin Hall and Senate leader ...

While Penelope Gatlin was checking in her 13-year-old son for his doctor’s appointment in Chapel Hill in December, a UNC Health receptionist told her she needed to pay $450 before he could be seen.

The high-ranking DOJ lawyer was reared in the 1970s as an outsider—an Indian Sikh girl in a town with a Ku Klux Klan ...

Ralph Baric—the renowned public-health researcher whose work on coronaviruses helped make COVID-19 vaccines possible, but brought scrutiny in the process—will retire from UNC-Chapel Hill in June.

Nondisclosure agreements kept a land deal secret for months. Internal emails show officials were preparing for a Microsoft ...

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Eleven of the system’s 16 universities proposed new reduced-credit undergraduate programs, which are gaining popularity ...

Chuck Edwards, a GOP Rep. from North Carolina, is reportedly under investigation over alleged sexual misconduct with a former ...

This story was published in partnership with Grist. It was produced as a project for USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism and Center for Climate Journalism and Communication 2025 Health and ...