The state Board of Community Colleges on Friday agreed to spend up to $75,000 to study whether to admit illegal immigrants as students.

In the absence of federal immigration reform, a group of state and local leaders comes together to consider ways to drive out illegal immigrants.

Law students and immigrant advocates came together Wednesday to confront growing tension over North Carolina's growing Hispanic population.

Illegal immigration was a hot topic Wednesday as the candidates for lieutenant governor met.

Nearly half the people flagged for deportation in the two months since the Wake County sheriff started an immigrant detention program were jailed on traffic offenses.

Civil rights and immigrant groups Tuesday accused Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell of discriminating against Hispanics.

Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell apologized Sunday for his portrayal of the Mexican immigrant community in a News & Observer article about his county's growing Hispanic population.

The 15th Fiesta del Pueblo, an annual celebration of Latino culture, comes as few Hispanic North Carolinians are feeling honored.

Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell says Hispanics spread crime and dodge taxes. Yet he respects their hard work and expresses pity for their plight.

Daisy Diaz and Jose Frederico Campos became local celebrities in Chapel Hill a decade ago, when Campos was suddenly deported back to the tumult of his homeland, leaving Diaz to care for five children, one with a serious neurological condition.

The N.C Academy of Trial Lawyers will provide free legal assistance to those who attend La Fiesta del Pueblo this weekend in Raleigh.

Doctors around the state say a growing fervor over illegal immigration may scare illegal immigrants away from seeking health care and create a public health threat.

The state's community colleges will keep their doors closed to illegal immigrants for now. The decision is steeped in a divisive election-year political debate.

State Briefs: More than 50 people have been arrested on immigration-related charges at a government defense contractor in Woodfin that makes parachutes.

Maximiliano Mateo-Mendez, who was legally in the United States, has been charged with lying to a federal officer on the street.