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The award marks ProPublica’s 7th Pulitzer; Uvalde shooting investigation is named a Pulitzer finalist.

“DUI — You can't afford it.” The slogan posted on billboards across the state in a campaign to dissuade people from driving drunk has been updated since it was last used 10 years ago, but it remains ...

The HBCU Student Reporting Network, which launched in January, is designed to give Black student journalists more training and opportunities to take into the workforce. Each student works with a mentor to help sharpen their reporting skills, and the organization works with distribution partners to increase the reach of their stories and enable fellows to graduate with clips and a network.

After the federal waiver providing free school lunch expired, states started looking for ways to keep the effort alive. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Virginia, Vermont, D.C. among states considering or taking action.

Columnist Tom Campbell writes that America is less informed today than it was 10 years ago because local news sources are drying up.

We sure could use a little more news

"Theres no [better] way to be close to an institution than through somebody who lives in a dorm.”

The district reports it has replaced several Navistar International MaxxForce engines, but still has 11 in its fleet.

Bus 168 was finishing its route dropping off children from Cloverleaf Elementary School in Statesville in May 2021 when the driver and bus monitor noticed smoke coming from the engine.

An analysis by the N.C. Watchdog Reporting Network of hundreds of fuel sample records from school buses with MaxxForce engines across the state shows that oil sample tests found elevated levels of fuel in the oil more than one third of the time.