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.

The State Laboratory for Public Health will now test for Infantile Krabbe Disease and Guanidinoacetate Methyltransferase Deficiency.

Vice President J.D. Vance was at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro Monday to rally support for U.S. Senate Candidate Michael Whatley, who is locked in a tight race with former Governor Roy Cooper.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board is set to vote Tuesday on removing the board chair, amid a criminal investigation into “financial irregularities” and an ongoing leadership dispute over board contracting practices.

The estimated $584 million project in Richmond County would have been the sixth combustion turbine at Duke's Smith complex, joining a pair of combined cycle gas units there.

A self-described "folkie to the bone," Giddens sings and plays banjo and fiddle in this interview. Her latest album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, takes its name from an Emily Dickinson poem.

While most people don’t drive a diesel-powered car or operate heavy machinery, rising diesel prices have a ripple effect for everyday North Carolinians.

For decades, drivers were required to keep a registration card they could show when pulled over by a police officer. The stickers showed the month and year when that registration would expire.

A federal immigration agent shot and injured a Venezuelan immigrant during an operation in Austin, Texas, officials said.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former United Nations Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch-Brown about the relevance of the U.N.

United Nations head António Guterres returns to New York for his final U.N. General Assembly as diplomacy falters over wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the global body faces deep divisions.