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Soon-to-be graduates pose for a photo at the University of North Carolina on May 1, 2024, in Chapel Hill, N.C. The University of North Carolina is one of six Southern public university systems that formed a new accreditation agency this summer, a move that shook the national evaluation model that higher education has relied on for decades. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
By Ahmed Jallow
Project Kitty Hawk is serving 2,889 adult learners in online degree programs this fall, a 54% increase from last fall, according to the UNC system.
The General Assembly created the program in 2021 to help more working adults earn college degrees and credentials. It launched its first degree offerings in October 2023.
Several hundred gathered at Moore Square in downtown Raleigh on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025 to protest ongoing ICE and U.S. Border Patrol raids in Charlotte and the Research Triangle area. (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)
By Trevon Spencer
At least 10 people were arrested or detained Thursday evening during a license checkpoint operation in Tabor City, according to Siembra NC, an immigrant rights advocacy group.
The checkpoint took place near N.C. Highway 904 and Pireway Road between about 5:30 and 7 p.m., Siembra NC said.
Durham County Youth Home on Sept. 24, 2026. (Photo: Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline)
By Lynn Bonner
The juvenile detention center in Durham no longer confines youth to a solitary cell they called “the hole” for discipline or suicide watch, Disability Rights of North Carolina reports, but youth still spend almost all day on weekends alone in their cells.
Disability Rights NC published new findings about the Durham County Youth Home on Thursday as a follow-up to its report on the state’s youth detention centers published earlier this year.
Donated children’s books in honor of Dolly Parton will be placed in little libraries across Raleigh. Nick Blanchard came up with the idea to honor the late singer on “9 to 5” day. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)
By Clayton Henkel
Nick Blanchard tumbled out of bed and poured himself a cup of ambition Friday morning, then headed straight to a table in front of the Wake County Express Library in downtown Raleigh.
Blanchard and his friend Kelly Forbes were presiding over a children’s book drive to honor the late music icon and philanthropist Dolly Parton.
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