Army Air Forces Captain Marvin Lancaster was just 24 years old when his fighter plane was shot down over Egypt in 1942. For decades, his fate was a mystery, until the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency successfully identified his remains using advanced DNA testing.

Three years after the 2023 shooting that killed a professor and caused the UNC-Chapel Hill campus to go under a three-hour lockdown, an Orange County judge finds the accused grad student not guilty by reason of insanity.

The hunter was stranded in a heavily overgrown area more than one mile away from the nearest parking lot.

The historic journey ended with a symbolic low pass near the First Flight Monument at Kitty Hawk—bringing aviation full circle where the Wright brothers first took flight.

Following its elimination in the new state budget, minority businesses will no longer have the aid of the Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses, which helped provide assistance with state contracts for more than 25 years.

The land along Abbotts Creek in Davidson County is now permanently protected from development.

Starting in the fall of 2027, this program will award full-ride scholarships to students from 39 eastern North Carolina counties who are pursuing agricultural majors.

From President Trump’s visit to the legal battle over voting by mail, there’s been a lot of national news affecting our region. BPR's Felicia Sonmez sat down in the studio with political science professor Chris Cooper to catch up on it all.

IPEX gives $500,000 to debris cleanup, and promises new research on floodplain issues, nearly two years after PVC pipe spilled into the French Broad River during Helene.

Nigeria's lavish wedding tradition is colliding with a cost-of-living crisis, forcing young couples to rethink how they say "I do."

During Typhoon Halong in 2025, thousands of objects from an archeological dig site in western Alaska were torn from the earth and scattered across miles of coastline. Now, there's an emergency dig.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Bloomberg's Jeff Mason, past president of the White House Correspondents' Association about President Trump's decision to ban three major news outlets from the building.

A 16-year-old fell asleep at the wheel while on a hunting trip with his dad. Pinned in the wreckage with a fire starting, he thought he was going to die -- until a trucker pulled over to help.

New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert died recently, after a battle with cancer. NPR remembers the founding member of the punk rock bank.

President Trump's exertion of power over the press, Greenland and even the D.C. landscape are teeing up questions over the president's limits.

CNN, MS Now, and Politico are suing the Trump administration after being barred from the White House. Other TV networks are boycotting the White House press pool in solidarity.

On Wild Card, famous guests open up about topics we don't often talk about. Journalist John Dickerson talks about his relationship to death.

After decades of making parody music, Weird Al has new generations of fans. His Tiny Desk Concert saw an audience of people in their 60s and kids who could have been their grandchildren.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Tara Copp of The Washington Post about her reporting on the Defense Department's accounting of U.S. troops who've died over the course of the war with Iran.