Kinston

The six newspapers changing owners from Gannett to Paxton are the Burlington Times-News, the Asheboro Courier-Tribune, the Kinston Free Press, the New Bern Sun Journal, and The Daily News of Jacksonville.

For WUNC, photographer Madeline Gray documented a drag brunch in Kinston. Gray spent time with some of the performers in this rural North Carolina town to see how they're striving to build an inclusive space in this traditionally conservative community.

Hospitals are not overrun with COVID-19 patients like they were in the winter. But the virus is far from eradicated. That's encouraging some who were hesitant at first, to get the vaccine.

In a rural North Carolina town, photographer Madeline Gray paints an intimate portrait of a girl's basketball team.

The Pachamama, La Virgen, Parvati, Ala, Hera, the Cailleach, and the White Buffalo Calf Woman. Devotion to a masculine god was not always as widespread as…

The Pachamama, La Virgen, Parvati, Ala, Hera, the Cailleach, and the White Buffalo Calf Woman. Devotion to a masculine god was not always as widespread as…

A year ago, Hurricane Matthew dumped a dozen or more inches of rain on central and eastern North Carolina. Record flooding in the days following the storm…

Last October Hurricane Matthew caused more than two dozen deaths in North Carolina. Floods damaged much of the eastern part of the state, and communities…

Last October Hurricane Matthew caused more than two dozen deaths in North Carolina. Floods damaged much of the eastern part of the state, and communities…

Summer is here and so are summer festivals. While big events like MerleFest or the National Folk Festival get much of the attention, many smaller…