The health department has confirmed a norovirus outbreak in at least one facility in the county and is now investigating reports of similar illness from other facilities, including several schools.

The president of the 16-campus University of North Carolina system is recommending tuition and fee increases that would average about $470, or 8.8 percent, for the next school year.

County sheriff's spokeswoman Phyllis Stephens says 27-year-old Franklin Delano Rawls Jr. was charged Tuesday with communicating threats, a misdemeanor.

North Carolina's regional "Teachers of the Year" have been named, including a Beaufort County teacher and a Wilson County teacher.

We now know who will replace the longtime superintendent of Craven County Schools who is retiring in at the end of January.

The website of Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory says both campuses are closed and that all classes are canceled for Wednesday afternoon and evening.

State schools Superintendent June Atkinson says she's running for another four years as chief administrator of North Carolina's public schools.

Gov. Beverly Perdue says her budget proposal for next year will include a temporary sales tax increase to restore education cuts made by the Republican-led General Assembly when they let a similar tax expire last July.

The expansion in public prekindergarten programs has slowed and even been reversed in some states as school districts cope with shrinking budgets.

Some black students at Duke University are angry about a study by school researchers that says they and children of alumni are disproportionately more likely to switch to easier majors.

Pitt County School Board member Matthew Ward has passed away according to school officials.

University of North Carolina system President Tom Ross is recommending tuition and fee increases of less than 10 percent.

An East Carolina University professor fired from his adviser position from the school's newspaper, The East Carolinian, says he's been asked to consent to his confidential information being released.

An effort to mix two school subjects in a math lesson adds up to outrage at a Georgia school in Norcross.

This morning a state advisory council recommended Bear Grass be "fast tracked" to become a charter school.

Superior Court Judge Paul Gessner issued a temporary restraining order Monday stopping the law approved late last week by the General Assembly from being enacted.

Hey college students, do you want a job? Then you may not want to study architecture or the arts.

The school counselor who works in Onslow County was arrested this past week in another coastal county.

East Carolina University says the firing of its adviser to the student-run newspaper is not connected to a First Amendment issue of the university interfering with editorial decisions of the paper.

North Carolina's largest teacher lobbying group says the Republican-led override of Gov. Beverly Perdue's veto, considered as punishment for the organization, won't weaken its political and issues advocacy.

A judge is backing North Carolina Central University officials for firing a campus police officer after learning he sold sex toys out of the trunk of his patrol car while on duty.

John Fahey is moving to a superintendent job in Virginia, according to published reports.

A Greenville mom has made it her goal to give back to the kids in her neighborhood one book at a time.

The Greene County Middle School has won $10,000 in a music contest.

The Associated Press has learned that nine states, including North Carolina, will share $500 million in grant money to improve their early childhood programs.