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A quartet of Republican judges ruled Thursday along party lines to overturn the court’s precedent. At stake is a multi-billion dollar plan to provide state funds to improve public education in North Carolina.

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Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.
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FIFA has raised prices for over 40 games of the World Cup in its latest sale that kicked off Wednesday, according to an NPR count. The most expensive tickets to the final now cost $10,900.
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Our station celebrates its 50th birthday on Friday, April 3. Longtime staffers at WUNC share archival photos and reflections over the station's many years of serving North Carolina audiences.
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State agencies, private landowners and tribes can preempt wildfires by conducting controlled burns. But these controlled burns can only happen when the forecast allows.
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The nonprofit Harper’s Home, started by a 12-year-old cancer survivor and her mom, is breaking ground later this month on the first phase of housing to help families with children being treated at Duke Children’s Hospital.
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Democrats in North Carolina are scrambling to turn out rural Black voters and say the party cannot win the state without them. Although Democrats are normally strong with Black voters, they tend to fall short in rural areas.
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A formal state complaint claims Wake County Schools' vendors often fail to pick up students. Parents made over 16,000 complaints about the service since the last time the state investigated the issue.
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Spring is in full swing in the Carolinas, but some folks are still experiencing a lingering winter chill from overdue utility bills. For Duke Energy customers, this increasingly results in disconnection.
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N.C. State has an agreement with Tennessee assistant coach and former Wolfpack player Justin Gainey to lead its men's basketball program.
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The project is already in the federal government’s pipeline. The big question now is how local governments will fund their part of it.
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Out-of-state patients got more than one-third of the abortions provided in North Carolina in 2025, as telehealth expands as a pathway to care.
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More than half of U.S. states have banned trans athletes from school sports. A trans athlete and activist who has been at the leading edge of policy change for over a decade says these bans have far-reaching implications.