With only a month left until Nov. 3, it’s unclear whether they can or will call Republican lawmakers off the campaign trail before what's expected to be a tough election for the GOP..

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

Officials say they don’t know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used. Residents are unnerved.

Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...

These deals required by state law allow state officers to carry out immigration enforcement duties typically performed by federal agents.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ...

YouTube video by Jennifer Balkcom for Congress

“God and the people in this community will have the last word on who sits in that office,” Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough said.

Local election board members across North Carolina have promoted conspiracy theories, including the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President Donald Trump. Some who shared fals...

Local election board members across North Carolina have promoted conspiracy theories, including the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President Donald Trump. Some who shared fals...

News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.

Thousands of N.C. students are getting college credits, professional certifications, and even degrees while they’re still in high school. By 2028, Durham Public Schools hopes a quarter of its graduate...

Two years after Helene, a look at what the storm did—and didn’t do—to voting in 2024. Also: mail voting and purple phones.

UNC Asheville continues to struggle with enrollment challenges, but the chancellor says she has a plan to turn things around.

Monty Sullivan, the new president of the N.C. Community College System, thinks the schools can get more North Carolinians into jobs.

Renew NC is meant to help homeowners who fall in the gap. But many have faced delays and confusion about their application status.

Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...

Republicans privately say the key battleground for Senate control may be out of reach as nominee Michael Whatley’s ties to the president bog him down.

The state adopted changes to mail-in voting the same day absentee ballots for the midterms began going out.

North Carolina’s Supreme Court currently has a 5-to-2 Republican majority, and just one of those seats will be on the ballot this November. Justice Anita Earls, a Democrat, faces former N.C. Rep. Sara...

When I was prevented from completing the LSAT, I learned how North Carolina's carceral system blocks education for people on death row