The State of Things

Five years after his last novel, North Carolina native Nic Brown is back with another riveting story.

Public incidents in the NFL in the past year sparked a national conversation about domestic violence. But millions of Americans are struggling with...

In North Carolina, two million families live without adequate housing.

Marco Williams is a filmmaker who is not afraid of telling stories that others don't want to tell.

The North Carolina General Assembly is back to work in Raleigh and lawmakers are filing dozens of bills.

Mary Johnson Rockers and the Spark recently released their second record, Remedy, that celebrates the many ways in which the band has found their niche...

Penelope Easton ventured to the Alaskan territory as a young woman in 1948. It would have been an intimidating move for many young women in that era....

The U.S. Department of the Interior released a proposal this week that paves the way for energy companies to search for oil in the Atlantic, including...

Branford Marsalis brings great music into the world in multiple ways: he plays it; he writes it; he produces in on his own record label; and he promotes...

Faster internet is coming to North Carolina. Tech giant Google announced it will build ultra-high-speed broadband networks in the Triangle and...

North Carolina's new poet laureate, Shelby Stephenson, will be installed Monday, February 2, 2015.

In the last two decades, international migration to North Carolina has increased dramatically and more than half of the state’s foreign-born population...

Another battle over abortion regulations played out in Washington this week. This time, the conflict was within the Republican Party over a bill in the...

Durham guitarist Jon Shain recorded an album of covers in 2014 entitled Reupholstered.

Railroads across America carry hundreds of billions of dollars of toxic materials every year.