Vice President JD Vance has not visited North Carolina since he was sworn in. His first official trip was Jan. 27, when he surveyed Hurricane Helene damage in Damascus, Virginia. When we searched ...

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The move drew a flurry complaints from professors, who said that an instructor's value goes beyond his or her level of ...

Reading scores among fourth graders on the 2024 assessments are the same as the 2022 results – which Gov. Glenn Youngkin ...

Helene hit North Carolina as a tropical storm on Sept. 27, 2024, leaving death and destruction across the state. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...