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For 12 years, a Raleigh man has been making Black Santas a holiday tradition.

Asheville has welcomed tourism back after Hurricane Helene. But in Biltmore Village, recovery is still months away.

No other governor has seen his role so often reduced to trying to thwart his legislative adversaries. But that’s not Cooper’s only legacy.

At least six trustees prodded university employees for information on specific applicants or the admissions process, text messages showed.

A desire for inclusivity spurred a North Carolina man to make Black Santas a holiday tradition. Santas Just Like Me is in its 12th season.

This story has been updated to add comment from Eric Brinsfield. For more than 40 years, Chapel Hill had a “must-see” destination. No, not the Dean Smith Center, Kenan Stadium, or the North Carolina ...

A few days before Christmas 2011, photographer Stafford Braxton was at Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley Mall when he noticed an older Black man with a white beard walking through the crowded shopping center.