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Season 2 of PBS North Carolina's Shaped By Sound premieres Thursday with a performance by the indie rock band Wednesday.
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The Washington Post via Getty ImagesAs South Carolina's outbreak grows to 876 confirmed cases, vaccinations in the state surged in January. Cases have also been reported in two ICE detention facilities. -
Antonio Calanni/APSki mountaineering will make its Olympic debut this year, the first winter sport to do so since 2002. Skeleton, luge, ski jumping and moguls are also getting new events.
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The legal battle between Duke Health and WakeMed over a cancer-fighting linear accelerator has a David vs. Goliath flavor. -
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis is pressing the Department of Homeland Security for answers on the U.S. Border Patrol’s Charlotte operation last November. -
The General Assembly’s Energy Policy Commission met for the first time in nearly two years to review lessons learned and discuss North Carolina’s path forward on nuclear energy. -
The N.C. State Highway Patrol said winter weather conditions contributed to all three deaths. -
For more than two decades, Laura King has been one of the most in-demand drummers in North Carolina. You can learn a lot about the evolution of indie rock in the Triangle just by tracing her career. -
School systems across the Southeast are dealing with weather-related school closures for the second week in a row, leading some to try remote learning while many prepare to add more school days to make up for lost instructional time. -
UNC-Chapel Hill's Ackland Art Museum debuted its new exhibit "Bill Bamberger: Boys Will Be Men" on Jan. 30, 2026. -
Forecasters warned that dangerous extra-cold conditions will persist for a huge swath of the U.S. from the Gulf Coast into New England. There were hundreds of weekend flight cancellations to North Carolina, snow flurries and falling iguanas in Florida, and more misery for thousands who are still without power from last month's ice storm in the South. -
The private institution merger will impact nearly 9,000 students and involve $2 billion in university assets.
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The elimination of some campus early voting sites draws pushback from college students. The growing popularity of snowboarding makes the NC mountains a training ground for the pros. And a Grammy award winning Durham musician shares what it takes to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show.
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One woman breaks down the cost of her survival in the U.S. after fleeing Mexico in 2011 and dispels myths about immigrants being freeloaders.
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