Disability advocate Steven Hardy-Braz of Farmville recently received the Safety Champion Award from the NC Vision Zero Safety ...

There's a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day. Republicans are pushing ...

Kids with autism can be 160 times more likely than other children to drown. Florida is dedicating state money to a program ...

A major heat wave is affecting much of the eastern half of the United States this week, bringing dangerous conditions to ...

The Supreme Court upheld the right of children born on U.S. soil to automatic American citizenship. In so doing, the court ...

Buncombe County released a heat health alert Tuesday morning in advance of what’s likely to be a scorcher holiday week in ...

Transparency advocates say small group “check-ins” violate the spirit and purposes of North Carolina’s open meetings law. NC ...

At issue in the case was a post-Watergate law that Congress passed to limit the amount of money individuals can give to political parties.

On June 24, 146 Venezuelans were deported from Texas to Caracas. Hours later, while the deportees were in a guarded hotel, ...

The new law would force state law enforcement agencies to "cooperate to the fullest extent of the law" with Immigration and ...

Periodically, WHQR publishes letters to the editor, which we welcome, regardless of topic, as long as they're civil. This ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kim Wehle {WAIL-ee}, professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, about the Supreme Court's final decisions this term.