The News & Observer is proud to introduce our 2026 summer interns and fellows. The journalists will work in departments across the newsroom, including on our metro, politics, business, sports, visuals ...

The ground beneath your feet may be carrying on a kind of conversation. Research into fungal electrical signaling has found that underground networks of fungi generate patterns bearing a striking ...

What if you woke up tomorrow and realized that who you have become isn’t only the result of your habits and intentions, but also of how closely you observed yourself today? Psychology explains that ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Voters in the Triangle will see a wide range of federal, state and local races on their ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. There is no public official in Mecklenburg County as beleaguered as Sheriff Garry ...

Publisher Nancy Grennier cited the changing media landscape and insurmountable economic challenges as reasons for the closure. The paper was known for its community focus, including local sports, ...

While an argument to re-integrate JavaFX floats in an OpenJDK discussion list, Oracle ponders providing better access to JavaFX from the JDK. Just as a proposal to return JavaFX to the Java ...

The Fayetteville Observer, North Carolina’s oldest newspaper still publishing today, is your premier source for local news in the Cumberland County area. A Fayetteville institution, we have undergone ...

The Observer-Dispatch has been telling Utica's stories for 200 years. Started in the days of the horse and buggy, open-hearth cooking and quill pens, the paper has gone on to chronicle everything from ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — The Ann Arbor District Library plans to acquire the Ann Arbor Observer, a local monthly news publication serving the community since 1976. AADL leaders announced the move Monday night, ...