UNC-Chapel Hill is once again using a search firm, this time to find its next provost. Soon, we'll be reporting on N.C. State's hiring of a search firm to aid in its upcoming search for a new chancellor.

A woman whose husband was stationed at a North Carolina base has filed a lawsuit alleging the government knowingly exposed hundreds of thousands of Marines to highly contaminated drinking water.

With the ailing economy, many are looking for temporary work with the U.S. Census Bureau as it gears up for the 2010 census.

The Durham Train station will open at its new location on Wednesday.

For generations, bonobos have lived just outside the limelight, as their well-known cousin, the common chimpanzee, became a cause célèbre, largely through the good works of famed anthropologist Jane Goodall.

A Gaston County police officer was shot and wounded early this morning during an apparent confrontation with a burglary suspect.

Around 4 million baby floats made by Aqua-Leisure Industries have been recalled, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

A funeral will be held this week for a North Carolina National Guard soldier who was one of four killed last week by an improvised explosive in Iraq.

About 90 kids competed Sunday in IronKids Raleigh, the third in a national series of triathlons for children 6 to 15.

An affable rising senior and hockey player for N.C. State University drowned on Independence Day while trying to swim across a cove in Jordan Lake, officials said Sunday.

Serena's Song, a wheelchair-accessible hot air balloon, will be in Raleigh July 12 through 14 to offer free rides to individuals with disabilities.

At 16, Frank Buckles was too young to fight in World War I, but he enlisted in the Ambulance Service of the U.S. Army. Nearly a century later, he is still fighting to memorialize those who fought in the war.

Three of the workers who died in Saturday's fireworks explosion on Ocracoke Island went to the same church in Goldsboro, and a fourth victim whose death was announced Sunday had visited the church.

One person died and another escaped an early-morning house fire Sunday in Lillington, police officials said.

Rescue crews were searching Sunday for the body of a teenager who officials said likely drowned that morning in the Neuse River near Oriental.

Life Stories:When Ed Hamlin decided in his late 60s that it was time to enroll in law school, those closest to him were not surprised. In fact, his wife, Doris Hamlin, was all for it.

Two distinct narratives are at war in a controversy over whether North Carolina should cut as much as $100 million over two years from in-home care for older and disabled people.

Under the Dome:Most state agencies fall far short in providing taxpayers with access to information about their work, according to a new survey of transparency in government.

Sheehan:Some people share their greatest intimacies in the car, when everyone is facing forward, moving and looking straight ahead.

How Triangle legislators voted last week on bills of note.