North Carolina

Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson tells The Associated Press that he is retiring from full-time racing and will turn his focus toward spending time with family. He figures his future schedule will include no more than 10 bucket-list events.

At issue is whether the state can sue holding companies created by DuPont, which once operated a plant in Fayetteville that's responsible for dumping chemicals into the Cape Fear River.

A conversation about the challenges of political polling in the age of social media and Trump.

The justices ruled 4-3 — with registered Democrats in the majority — that oral arguments over the constitutionality of a 2018 voter ID law will be held next month. Friday's order grants a request by minority voters who sued to overturn the law approved by the General Assembly.

After the mayor of Enfield, North Carolina, ordered the bulldozing of a local Confederate monument, he's been the target of a state investigation and racist hate mail. But he says the experience is also part of a new chapter in his life as a community organizer and activist.

The Internal Revenue Service stripped the state conference of the civil rights organization of its tax-exempt status on May 15 under a process that automatically revokes the designation for nonprofits that fail to file federal tax returns for three consecutive years, according to a post on the IRS site.

The landmark Leandro case is headed to the North Carolina Supreme Court for the fourth time in its 28 year history. Advocates rallied at the statehouse Saturday to call for the state to spend $6.8 billion to improve public education.

Over the past decades, state funding for schools has fluctuated. To understand what that looks like, WUNC's education reporter Liz Schlemmer spoke with two veteran teachers.

The decision follows a unanimous elections board vote to more clearly outline the code of conduct for party-appointed election observers in response to more than a dozen reported conduct violations during the state’s May primaries.

Commissioners in the small town of Enfield, North Carolina recently voted to remove a Confederate monument from a local park. The town's mayor started livestreaming while he instructed others to bulldoze the statue.