Many gathered at Pride: Durham, NC events last weekend to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community through a parade, musical performances, a resource fair and other festivities.

Frank Alexander lost his Morehead scholarship in the 1970s after getting arrested at a civil rights protest. He tells his story 50 years later, after meeting another scholar who lost her award amid pr...

Get rid of the Rescissions Act.

The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television.

In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.

At the inaugural Biscuits & Banjos festival in Durham, founded by North Carolina’s own Rhiannon Giddens, WUNC music reporter Brian Burns hopped between more than a dozen performances and events. He gi...

A tiny community along a dead-end road got a divine flyover a few years ago. The view on the ground is much different, and two decades after he came, one visitor still can't bring himself to leave.

Federal funding makes up about 5% of WUNC's budget. That comes out to about $800,000 every year. This funding is vital to bring you the news you rely on every day.

The number of Asian grocery stores and supermarkets in the NC Triangle have grown significantly since the 1990s, reflecting the rapid growth of the Asian population in the area. The stores have also b...

After much community anticipation, the Wheels Roller Skating Rink in east Durham is reopening under city ownership. Roller rinks across the country have declined drastically since the 1990s. Since the...

Chief Diversity Officer Keith Woods announced he'll retire after a 46-year career in journalism and 15 years at NPR, as the issue he has championed takes center stage in political discourse.

After much community anticipation, the Wheels Roller Skating Rink in east Durham is reopening under city ownership. Roller rinks across the country have declined drastically since the 1990s. Since the...

On the 10-year anniversary of hate crime murders, the family of Our Three Winners turns tragedy into 'a force for good'

Maurice “Mo” Green is the first African-American state superintendent in North Carolina’s history and the first Democrat in the office in eight years. His friends describe him as a quiet leader and a ...

Contributors to Jefferson Griffin's legal expense fund include a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, which could end up handling Griffin's lawsuit to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in h...

In College Park and other southeast Raleigh neighborhoods, modern-looking, multi-story homes are going up next to much smaller homes that have been here for nearly a century. They often sell for more ...

The official numbers are in: 2024 is the hottest year on record. Climate change is the main culprit. But there might be something else going on, too.

Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist