Despite warnings that making the change could cost taxpayers an additional $15.5 million, Wake County's school board majority moved a step closer Tuesday toward fulfilling its campaign promise of abandoning a proposed high school in northeast Raleigh.

Conservative businessmen Bob Luddy and Art Pope were the largest contributors in fall's Wake County school board elections, which ushered in a majority pledged to eliminate the district's diversity policy.

Meredith College's first and only female president says she will retire next year after leading the women's college for 12 years.

Alyssa Heider had a knack for getting her shy classmates to open up. In middle school, she once threw a dance party as a class project.

Cents and Sensibility:  Just the thought of seeing how far I am from where I need to be to pay for my son's college education scares the living daylights out of me.

N.C. State University has retooled its long-stalled plan to build a new lakefront chancellor's residence at Centennial Campus, slashing the size of the home by nearly a third and trimming the costs by about 40 percent.

The sour economy has eaten into charitable contributions to colleges and universities across the Triangle, stalling construction projects at some and cutting the amount of money available for scholarships.

A team of specialized doctors and nurses from Duke University Medical Center leaves today for a hospital in Haiti, where they will spend up to two weeks treating earthquake victims.

At a Thursday meeting with a group of mostly downtown ministers, the head of the state's NAACP urged them to get behind what is fast-becoming his signature issue: opposition to the Wake County school board's attempt to end its diversity policy.

The recent uproar over proposed changes to the history curriculum in North Carolina public schools is not a conservative-vs.-liberal issue, said N.C. State University history professor Holly Brewer.

Public schools in the United States need to try to spark creative thinking in children and move away from curriculums that just teach to standardized tests, U.S.

Mount Olive College has figured out a way to save its students a cool $22,000: get them a degree in three years.

Candidates, take your corners. After convincing victories by a Republican-backed coalition in last year's Wake school board elections, the GOP is muscling up for Round Two. Candidate filing starts today for North Carolina's 2010 political races.

The mice in J. Victor Garcia-Martinez's lab at UNC-Chapel Hill foretell a major new breakthrough in the fight against AIDS.

State regulators want to know why UNC-Chapel Hill waited nearly two months to report a leak of treated animal waste that reached a creek feeding Jordan Lake.

At today's Krispy Kreme Challenge, each participant will consume a dozen glazed doughnuts, sandwiched between a pair of two-mile runs between N.C. State University and the doughnut shop downtown.

Defense attorneys representing the two men accused of murdering UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson will not have access to all Crime Stoppers tips in the case, an Orange County judge ruled Thursday.