Stories of mountain resilience, a jail death and an ageless band member stay with us
N&O reporters will remember Potomac helicopter crash, NC State soccer in Final Four, NC State band member, 42nd Street Oyster Bar closes but may reopen.
Dec 23 25December 23, 2025
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
Power & Secrecy: N&O investigative series wins national journalism award
Scripps Howard Fund recognizes N&O Power & Secrecy project examining slush fund, custom-made grants, and nonprofits paying for NC lawmakers’ travel.
Jun 13 25June 13, 2025
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
News & Observer reporting revealed hidden truths, held the powerful to account in 2024
One main theme in N&O reporting found North Carolina legislative leaders using the state budget to devote taxpayer dollars to causes that helped themselves or their allies.
Dec 31 24December 31, 2024
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
N&O reporter honored for deep reporting on North Carolina criminal justice system
News & Observer reporter Virginia Bridges has been recognized for her strong reporting on the criminal justice system in the Triangle and across North Carolina. Bridges has won a first-place Green Eyeshade Award for courts and law reporting. The…
Aug 09 24August 09, 2024
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
How do local issues affect us? N&O journalists dug deep in 2023 to shed light on them
On Dec. 28, we published a list of some of the News & Observer’s best statewide-focused investigative reporting from 2023. Below, we turn local, sharing some of our best accountability reporting from this year focused on the Triangle and nearby…
Dec 29 23December 29, 2023
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
Government stumbles, complex problems. The N&O held the powerful in NC accountable in 2023
Good local journalism always informs and sometimes entertains. It keeps communities up-to-date on the good and awful to help us better understand where we live. Day after day after day. Among our highest callings is publishing fair, accurate and…
Dec 28 23December 28, 2023
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
At time of change, Charlotte Observer expands local and NC criminal justice coverage
At a time when community members and government leaders seek criminal justice reform, The Charlotte Observer is expanding coverage of police, courts and related realms. Reporter Ryan Oehrli will lead an initiative to more often dig beyond daily crime…
May 18 23May 18, 2023
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
Charlotte Observer, N&O investigation of NC poultry farming wins more national awards
Charlotte Observer and News & Observer reporting on North Carolina’s secretive poultry industry has won two additional national journalism awards. The Big Poultry investigative series won a National Headliner Award in its environmental writing…
May 10 23May 10, 2023
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
National journalism group honors two NC McClatchy investigative reporting projects
Investigative Reporters & Editors, a national group supporting investigative journalism, has recognized two watchdog projects that McClatchy’s North Carolina newsrooms published in 2022. Big Poultry, published in December by The Charlotte Observer…
Apr 03 23April 03, 2023
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
McClatchy NC newsrooms win national award for investigating secretive poultry industry
Charlotte Observer and News & Observer journalists have won the 2023 Victor K. McElheny Award for their Big Poultry project, an investigation of hidden impacts from North Carolina’s largest agriculture industry. Given annually by the Knight Science…
Mar 24 23March 24, 2023
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
McClatchy’s North Carolina investigations team lands $83,000 for data-driven reporting
The Data-Driven Reporting Project has awarded McClatchy’s North Carolina investigations team $83,000 to support its data-driven accountability journalism. Funded by Google News Initiative and run by Northwestern University’s Medill School of…
Jun 22 22June 22, 2022
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
Four recent times it mattered that police video became public in North Carolina
An effort to make North Carolina police body cam video more accessible to families was derailed after the sheriff’s lobby opposed the changes. Beginning Dec. 1, law enforcement can no longer share footage with family members in instances of death or…
Dec 08 21December 08, 2021
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
N&O, ProPublica win journalism award for reporting on racial justice in NC county
The News & Observer and ProPublica won an Online Journalism Award for social justice reporting for ”Sound of Judgment,” a long-form narrative project published in May. News & Observer investigative reporter Carli Brosseau and visual journalist Julia…
Oct 18 21October 18, 2021
Article at Raleigh News & Observer
These towns love their federal prison. But covid-19 is straining the relationship.
LOMPOC, Calif. — Residents of this central California agricultural community are keenly aware of their town's reputation. Wedged in a valley just north of ritzy coastal Santa Barbara, the town established originally as a temperance colony is 30…
May 09 20May 09, 2020
Article at Washington Post
Proposals to Turn Hog Waste into Biofuel Spur Debate
As enthusiasm grows for turning NC hog manure into fuel, environmentalists and farm neighbors push for a clean-up agenda. By Catherine Clabby Good news about hog waste can be scarce in this swine-rich state. But success at converting swine waste into…
Jul 24 18July 24, 2018
Article at North Carolina Health News
CATHERINE CLABBY: What happens to N.C. adults excluded from health insurance, a case study
Updated July 16, 2018 4:08 p.m. EDT EDITOR'S NOTE: Catherine Clabby is a longtime North Carolina journalist who reports most often on environmental health issues, science and medicine. She is an alum fellow of the MIT Knight Science Journalism…
Jul 15 18July 15, 2018
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Contrasting Narratives in Hog Farm Bill Fight
By Catherine Clabby and Rose Hoban People on opposing sides of the increasingly hostile dispute over hog farm lawsuits urged Gov. Roy Cooper to choose sides in Raleigh on Monday. Supporters and opponents each came to the state capital to sound off on…
Jun 26 18June 26, 2018
Article at North Carolina Health News
The Science of Hog Farm Odors
Hog farm neighbors and global pork company spar over how to assess whether hog farms stink too much. By Catherine Clabby When expert witness Shane Rogers steps into a witness box in federal court these days, he takes pains to explain why he thinks…
Jun 25 18June 25, 2018
Article at North Carolina Health News