Tens of millions of people are at risk of losing federal food and nutrition benefits due to the government shutdown. Food bank administrators say they are working overtime to meet demand.

WUNC's series "From Politics to Paychecks" shows how political decisions, including a delayed state budget, are affecting NC ...

Fasher, in Darfur, to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Now warnings are mounting of a second genocide as mass killings ...

Oh took the fast track to jazz prominence, emerging on the scene in the 2000s and becoming the bass player in bands led by Pat Metheny and Vijay Iyer. Her new album is a look back at her early work.

The tract, known as Greens Thoroughfare, is both an island and located on the northern shore of the river, containing ...

DaCosta has directed blockbusters like Candyman and The Marvels. Her latest is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, Hedda Gabler, recasting the main character as a queer, mixed-race Black woman.

The bill was introduced shortly after the Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly redrew Davis's 1st ...

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Marine Fisheries and staff from the North Carolina ...

Domtar Paper Company in Martin County applied to modify its existing permit, asking permission to increase the number of ...

Five oceanfront homes collapsed in Buxton on Tuesday. A coastal low pressure system caused large surf and severe erosion on ...

The Federal Reserve is expected to cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point because the central bank is more concerned about the job market than it is with battling inflation.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dana Sacchetti, the head of the World Food Programme in Jamaica, about how aid organizations will help residents recover from Hurricane Melissa.