One coach, two players and one team have been recognized by The Charlotte Observer as the best in boys’ high school sports for the 2025-26 school year. Each June, The Observer honors the best area ...

Arthur L. Carter poses for a portrait in The New York Observer’s Upper East Side townhouse in New York City on May 16, 1994. Penske Media via Getty Images Carter admired Kaplan for his extraordinary ...

Wednesday marks my last official day as editor-in-chief of the Dallas Observer. (Unofficially, I’m feeling a bit … um … fluish. So I probably won’t be back in ...

I’ve been married for 20 years and have three kids, 19 (in college), 17 and 15. My wife and I sleep in separate beds and haven’t had sex in more than five years — her choice, not mine. We tried ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. On Monday night, Charlotte City Council appointed attorney Robert Harrington to finish ...

Lesli Lambeth Bryant, 37, of Hillsborough was arrested Thursday after allegedly sexually exploiting students at Orange High, where she worked. File photo The News & Observer AI-generated summary ...

SAS Institute, the prominent North Carolina analytics software provider, cut 300 positions across its entire workforce last week in a move the company framed as redirecting resources toward higher ...

As the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary, global business is adapting to an America that remains indispensable, even as it no longer writes all the rules. Unsplash+ As America marks its 250th ...

Audience members salute the flag during a dedication event in Canonsburg in honor of America's 250th birthday. [Conner Goetz] Canonsburg officials celebrated America’s 250th birthday with a new ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in a monthlong series of profiles of the people who live and work in Washington, Greene and Fayette counties, in celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary. At times, ...

With the recent 7-1 vote by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) to freeze rents for both one- and two-year leases on rent-stabilized apartments in the city, two things seem likely. The first ...

New research shows that crops are far more vulnerable when too much rainfall originates from land rather than the ocean. Land-sourced moisture leads to weaker, less reliable rainfall, heightening ...