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The North Carolina roadside history marker commemorates the Cowee Tunnel disaster near Dillsboro, an 1882 construction accident that killed 19 Black inmate workers.
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What a new bridge over Baltimore's Patapsco River will look like is still very much a matter of speculation. But one design stands out.
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Four states so far have passed laws prohibiting the use of public money for no-strings cash aid. Advocates for basic income say the backlash is being fueled by a conservative think tank.
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Wakebrook closed last year after UNC Health pulled out. The facility will reopen to patients in May with renovations, more service providers, and a new crisis center.
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Protests continued Monday at an encampment at UNC Chapel Hill, as students called for the university to divest from investments that support Israel.
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A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia and North Carolina's refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory.
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eCourts has been plagued by complaints about its implementation and faces a lawsuit.
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CBD, hemp and other products that contain the active ingredient from marijuana are sold in North Carolina with few regulations. An effort in the state legislature aims to change that.
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High School students in Fayetteville created a project about Army Special Operations Soldiers on secret missions in Berlin, Germany during the Cold War. The grand opening for the exhibit is May 7.
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Politicians, parents, and pundits have lots of opinions about how to solve mental health problems affecting nearly every campus. In this conversation, students themselves share their perspective of what they and their classmates are facing.
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Some UNC-Chapel Hill students set up an encampment midday Friday to protest the ongoing war in Gaza.
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A decline in hunters and a deadly disease are threatening the foundation of our wildlife management system.
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State lawmakers are back in Raleigh to begin what’s known as the short session – several months in which they’ll make adjustments to the state budget for the upcoming year and consider a variety of other legislation that didn’t make it across the finish line in the 2023 long session. One of the biggest partisan battles is likely to be over education funding: How much of the state's projected revenue surplus will go to public schools, and how much will address high demand for private school vouchers? Will the state address the funding cliff that childcare centers are experiencing as federal pandemic money expires?To sort through the issues facing lawmakers, WUNC's Colin Campbell spoke with Sen. Gale Adcock, D-Wake. Adcock, a longtime nurse practitioner, also discusses the state's healthcare policy needs in the months following the expansion of the Medicaid program.
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Something Special for you all: an episode from "Me and My Muslim Friends," featuring Sameera Qureshi. She is a therapist and founder of Sexual Health for Muslims. Her approach to sex education, therapy, and health is grounded in the Islamic framework and the Islamic understanding of the soul. Unfortunately, most Muslims don’t have access to a comprehensive sex education growing up. Host Yasmin Bendaas and Sameera dive into the consequences of that and talk about some of the most common issues Sameera hears in her counseling practice.
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Co-host Jeff Tiberii checks in with a roundtable of reporters on college protests at UNC Chapel Hill; law enforcement tragedy in Charlotte and updates on primary elections and school vouchers.
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