Summer

When school is out, students without the means to pay for summer camps and vacations stand to lose two to three months of learning, according to experts. With summer activities out of their financial reach, a Raleigh family got creative.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed three education bills on Friday to help address learning loss incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and expand access to in-state tuition for military dependents whose parents were reassigned to another location.

In the time before COVID-19, people could go to the pool or a waterpark to cool off from the summer heat. But in the midst of a pandemic, those are no…

Wake County is encouraging its 1,600 public pools to shock treat their water to kill a diarrhea-causing parasite.Twenty cases of cryptosporidiosis have…

Summer is the time of year when vacationers look for good books to take to the beach or their backyard hammocks.These books can be the ones that are…

Summer is the time of year when vacationers look for good books to take to the beach or their backyard hammocks.These books can be the ones that are…

Summer has brought moderate-to-severe drought conditions to 14 counties in the southwest corner of the state.The area usually sees about an inch of rain…

Summer is here and so are summer festivals. While big events like MerleFest or the National Folk Festival get much of the attention, many smaller…

Summer is here and so are summer festivals. While big events like MerleFest or the National Folk Festival get much of the attention, many smaller…

Our student reporters for the Summer Youth Reporting Institute are venturing out this week to collect interviews for their original stories. We asked them…