There’s a trend in school board elections across North Carolina — more are becoming partisan races, where candidates appear on the ballot with their political party marked beside their names. Cabarrus County is conducting its first-ever partisan race for school board this year. Mishell Williams is a first-time...

The U.S. has not built enough new homes for years. That means millions of people are living in places that are just old and falling into disrepair. Many of these people are seniors, struggling to stay put as they age. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on what that looks like for one couple.

Lebanon's only hospital with a unit specializing in burn treatment is seeing a surge in burn cases from Israeli airstrikes.

There are many statewide races that are under the radar. Auditor. Insurance commissioner. Even lieutenant governor. “A lot of (voters) don’t know what the lieutenant governor is, don’t know that they aren’t on the slate with the governor, don’t know what their duties are and don’t know they are important,” said Mecklenburg state Sen. Rachel Hunt, the Democrat running for that office.

Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited Matthews Wednesday to rally door-knocking volunteers. Walz encouraged over 200 volunteers with the local Democratic party to reach people who are still unsure if they will vote in this election. “You've got work to do out there on the doors...

Charlotte lost a major leader, fundraiser and supporter with the passing this week of Jim Hynes at the age of 84. Hynes, a 1962 graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, is one of those people who isn't a household name but helped build the city into what it is today. He was chair of Atrium Health from 2000 to 2012, served as chair of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, was a trustee at UNC Chapel Hill and a Harris Teeter director.

In North Carolina, new polls come often. In early September, Vice President Kamala Harris was up one point over former president Donald Trump among registered North Carolina voters, according to Elon University polling. A week later, a Meredith College poll had both presidential candidates winning 48% of likely voters in the swing state.

Election officials in at least four states have reported ballots being damaged or put at risk in the past week, renewing focus on the security of the U.S. voting system. Experts say the incidents are rare — and that they don’t pose any sort of threat to the 2024 elections’ integrity.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has sent only about 30 substantive emails in more than three years in office, newly released public records show. The lieutenant governor’s office has released a public records file showing all the emails he sent from three accounts, two official and one personal Gmail account, since he took office in January 2021. The records show Robinson was an infrequent user of email, and most of the released emails are messages forwarded to staff with no text, or are calendar invites to meetings.

It's been more than a month since Helene caused catastrophic damage in western North Carolina. The manager of Buncombe County called it her area's own Hurricane Katrina. FEMA set up a base of operations in the mountains, but FEMA workers are also in the Triangle to help with recovery efforts.

North Carolina ports in Morehead City and Wilmington will not share in a $3 billion Biden administration program to boost climate-friendly infrastructure at seaports across the country. President Joe Biden announced the grants Tuesday during a visit to a main port in Baltimore, where a deadly bridge collapse killed six...

Just six days before the 2024 general election, the Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to continue its purge of more than 1,600 individuals from the state's voter rolls. The vote was 6 to 3, along ideological lines, with liberal Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting.

On most mornings, you are likely to see people breezing down sidewalks or along Charlotte’s vast trail network. There are more than 74 miles of greenway trails in Mecklenburg County where people run, bike or simply get from one place to another. Each Monday, a group of 50 or...

An election betting advertisement flashed on screen during coverage of former President Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden this weekend on the Right Side Broadcasting Network, a conservative media company. "Bet on the US election," the ad for Kalshi said as Trump spoke on stage. "Bet $100 on Trump,...

Children in Des Moines, Iowa, will get to trick-or-treat on Halloween for the first time in decades, and to find out why a person there only needs to look to the sky. Forecasted storms are forcing a one-day delay of "Beggars' Night," the annual tradition that children in Iowa's capital city participate in that replaces the Oct. 31 observation of All Hallows' Eve held widely across the rest of the country.

Around one billion people worldwide and across the U.S. will celebrate Diwali this week. Diwali, also known as Deepavali and the Hindu “Festival of Lights,” is one of India's most widely celebrated holidays. It overlaps with other harvest rituals and festivals. The dates for the holiday vary each year as they follow the lunar calendar. Diwali originated in India more than 2,500 years ago. The annual festival, which expands to the Indian diaspora, is usually observed for five days or even as short as one day, depending on where a person lives or how the person celebrates.

KYIV, Ukraine — The Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv is still scarred from a direct hit by a deadly Russian missile this summer. Flowers and stuffed animals are piled at the front gate. Repair work is ongoing at several damaged buildings. This is one of the most notorious Russian attacks on civilians — but just one of many.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The cavernous Stewart Udall Department of Interior Building may be just off the National Mall in Washington but it feels like a window into the Old West. Past the nostalgic if peculiar Indian Craft Shop, there are striking New Deal-era murals of firefighting and farming, and an Ansel Adams photograph of the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. It’s just a few miles from where Deb Haaland spent much of her childhood at her grandmother’s rock home in Mesita Village, Laguna Pueblo.

You know things are rough at Starbucks when the company drops bad news preemptively, which it did last week to get ahead of Wednesday’s deadline to report earnings. Sales in the U.S. have fallen for months, down 6% in the latest quarter compared to a year earlier, making it the worst quarter since the pandemic-era shutdowns. The number of purchases dropped 10%.

When the ambulances started rolling in and news trickled out that multiple police officers had been shot, Kathy Barnard braced herself for one of the worst days in her 26 years on the job. One thing gave her confidence though. “I pray we never, ever experience that again, but there...