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Boliek has tasked the 22-member commission with helping to overhaul North Carolina's campaign finance reporting to make it more accessible to the general public.

While much of the attention this primary season has focused on the contests for U.S. Senate and seats in Congress — as well as an effort to unseat Senate leader Phil Berger — downballot races across the state feature some noteworthy competition.

Whatley is a former chair of the Republican National Committee. Before that, he was a chairman of North Carolina's Republican Party.

Faculty across the UNC System are expressing increased concerns that their safety is at risk following the new UNC System policy that all class syllabi be posted in an online database.

Firefighters were called to Camden Westwood apartments, just off Chapel Hill Road, around 6:15. They found a fire burning on the third floor of a building with about 30 apartment units, according to a statement from the Town of Morrisville.

Carolina North, a satellite development 1.6 miles from UNC-Chapel Hill's campus, is planned to turn 250 acres of primarily empty land into a "live, work, play and learning" space.

Fewer than 20,000 voters participate in a typical state Senate primary, but GOP primary voters in two counties will have a major impact on the power dynamics in the state legislature.

Nearly every North Carolina county is now in moderate to severe drought as the spring wildfire season ramps up.

For more than a decade now, Brad Cook has been one of the most in-demand record producers in the business. He's worked with Mavis Staples, Bon Iver, and Waxahatchee just to name a few. WUNC music reporter Brian Burns recently caught up with Cook in his home studio in Durham.

This week, North Carolina joined 22 other states in filing a motion to enforce an earlier ruling that demanded FEMA release funding for the more than 2,000 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities projects left in limbo nationwide.

The selection of Asheville “reflects the Trump Administration’s commitment to the revitalization and resilience of western North Carolina,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

The federal government plans to pay to keep coal plants open longer. It recently selected Duke Energy’s two-unit coal-burning plant to receive up to $34 million.