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Last year was a record year for fund raising at US universities, including Duke University, according to a new report.Click to Continue »

The region's transit authority is ready to sell the future site of Union Station to the city of Raleigh. The exchange of about four acres of land and up to…Click to Continue »

Variety Wholesalers on Thursday will open a Roses in the former Kroger building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the first step in a strategy to bring groceries back to…Click to Continue »

The Rev. William Barber doesn't judge the Moral Monday movement based on the results of one election.Click to Continue »

U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers has been weathering a storm of criticism over her withdrawal of support from a late-term abortion ban bill, and it shows no sign of lifting.Click to Continue »

A closed Kinston charter school mismanaged state money, inflated its enrollment and hired the principal's unqualified relatives, according to a stinging state audit released Wednesday. Some of the audit findings…Click to Continue »

Rep. Justin Burr, an Albemarle Republican, got a new leadership role Wednesday after House Speaker Tim Moore initially stripped him of his chair position on the powerful appropriations committee.Click to Continue »

The governor announced appointments Wednesday to environment and energy panels.Click to Continue »

Senate Bill 6 would allow retired teachers and principals who return to work in temporary school positions to retain their coverage options under the state health plan rather than limiting…Click to Continue »

North Carolina business leaders on Wednesday called for the legislature to increase state transportation spending by billions of dollars over the coming decade – but they refused to discuss possible…Click to Continue »