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A late summer run for NPR's Brian Mann featured an abundance of ripe, wild berries and a dip in the river.

Money allocated by North Carolina lawmakers earlier this year has started making its way to farmers in WNC.

After a dry spell, heavy rains in Florida this week have finally brought out the frogs. We'll hear from them.

An executive order to rename an Alaskan mountain with the highest peak in North America wouldn't be the first name change for Denali.

For believers, the holy month is about much more than fasting. It's a time for reflection and compassion — to give to the less fortunate, gather with community to break the daily fasts, and pray.

Aquatic creatures of very different sizes swim at the same relative depth when traveling long distances.

China is making changes to the global infrastructure initiative after some initial stumbles in its first decade — and it's now in direct competition with the U.S.

A suspect was taken into custody Wednesday after one student was fatally shot at a North Carolina high school, officials said.

North Carolina is renaming four state prisons and a drug addiction treatment facility for probationers because their current names are connected to racism or slavery. The changes go into effect next week.

The Hubert Davis era in Chapel Hill has begun. He had his first formal press conference Tuesday to announce him as as North Carolina’s new men’s basketball coach.

Duke is promoting Nina King to become the school's next athletics director. King will become only the third Black woman working as an athletics director in the Power Five conferences and is the first woman to serve as Duke's athletics director.

Police have arrested several people during protests in Elizabeth City, including two journalists who were covering the demonstration the day after a district attorney cleared sheriff’s deputies in the shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr.

Trustees at the University of South Carolina have refused to accept the resignation of the school's embattled president following a commencement address marred by allegations of plagiarism and misidentification of the school itself.

Developers for the Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate project are asking state environmental officials for a specific water permit that’s needed to move forward. In 2020, state officials denied this permit, saying the project could lead to unnecessary water quality impacts.

Charlotte-area courthouses were especially busy on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, with couples seeking the special date for their weddings.

Residents who live near a Winston-Salem fertilizer plant that has been burning for more than a week are returning home. Officials reduced the evacuation zone Sunday after determining that the risk of a large explosion at the Winston Weaver plant had greatly diminished.

N.C. House District 82 includes the southeastern and southwestern borders of Cabarrus County. District 82 represents approximately 63,000 registered voters of whom 27% are Democrat, 34% are Republican and 38% are unaffiliated. The seat was last held by Republican physician Kristin Baker, who said she would not seek re-election. Two newcomers are seeking the seat. In the 2020 presidential election, approximately 49,000 voters cast ballots and 55% voted for the Republican candidate (Trump) and 44% voted for the Democratic candidate (Biden).

The Western swing veteran's latest album, El Rancho Azul, is filled with lighthearted drinking ballads and dance-hall toe-tappers.

Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio hit the Sunday morning TV talk shows to promote, and preemptively defend, the bipartisan immigration overhaul that is expected to be released this week. Rubio appeared on seven nationally broadcast shows.

A data scientist pitted rappers against Shakespeare to see who had the more extensive vocabulary. But he says he isn't trying to make some sweeping statement about the lyrical prowess of hip-hop.