North Carolina

Concerns arose before Hurricane Florence made landfall about the piles of toxic waste from coal-burning power plants in the storm's path.

• By Rebecca Worby

The state has bet against a megastorm for years, but now as Florence bears down on the state it could face a major money shortage to rebuild from the damage.

• By Abraham Lustgarten & Talia Buford

The hog industry is changing, but, as Hurricane Florence hits, history may be doomed to repeat itself.

• By Emily Moon

A conversation with professor Frank Baumgartner, who led a research team that analyzed every North Carolina police stop since 2002.

• By Tanvi Misra

Critics say the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency has masked the high costs of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to communities of color.

• By Sophie Yeo

The winner has vowed to discontinue a program that allows local sheriffs' offices to function as satellite immigration detention centers.

• By Ashley Hackett

For years advocates have wondered: How can abusers effectively be held accountable for stalking, harassing, assaulting, threatening, or killing their current and former partners? Kingston, New York, might have an answer.

• By Natalie Pattillo

The case once more raises the issue of persistent racial bias in North Carolina's history of sentencing black defendants.

• By Chinelo Nkechi Ikem

In states like North Carolina, splitting up county-wide school systems often results in unequal access to resources separated down racial lines.

• By Barry Yeoman

Devotion to the Second Amendment has somehow replaced personal responsibility as the core idea of the right to bear arms.

• By Jared Keller

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear North Carolina's appeal to reinstate voting restrictions.

• By Max Ufberg

The film industry can be a driving force behind the corporate boycott of states with religious freedom legislation—to a point.

• By Jared Keller

The North Carolina legislature has passed a law that leaves the state's gay and transgender residents unprotected against discrimination.

• By Kate Wheeling

Segregated schools are producing higher levels of criminal networking and behavior among students.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Scenes before a tragedy—and how art responds to murder.

• By Ted Scheinman

The new American economy in three tablespoons of blood, a Walmart gift card, and a former mill town's DNA.

• By Amanda Wilson

Why the state needs to crack down on its predatory prosecutors—fast.

• By Ted Scheinman

A reformed drug dealer on the prisons of North Carolina.

• By Ted Scheinman