The News & Observer sat down for interviews with Anita Earls and Sarah Stevens to discuss their campaigns, judicial philosophies and more.

Suicide ‘happens in the Black community,’ this Triangle mother says. Many struggle with what can be done.

Ahead of the 2026-27 school year, a Cary WCPSS teacher from India is fighting to be released from a Georgia ICE detention center.

Records indicate Rep. Chuck Edwards skipped votes, canceled a district event for dinner with a former staffer, and paid for a personal trip to Las Vegas with campaign donations.

When the number of vaccinated children drop too low in a school, the risk of infection increases there and in the wider community, experts say.

The Associated Press and The Washington Post were also finalists in the category.

ALT: a woman in a black hat is reading a book titled recently deceased