Education

Federal student loan borrowers are expected to resume payments this fall. But more than 800,000 borrowers are finding out that their loans have suddenly been forgiven.

Several states now require lap-and-shoulder belts on all new school buses purchased. But most states have no such requirement.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is among the schools chosen to receive funding through an initiative by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Three Alaska Native Villages have changed their school calendar so that students now can take part in things like the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.

A University of North Carolina graduate student charged with killing his faculty adviser walked into a classroom building, shot the victim and then left, authorities said Tuesday, shedding light on an attack that led to a campuswide lockdown as police searched for the gunman.

A University of North Carolina official says that a faculty member was shot and killed in a campus building. UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said the shooting was in Caudill Laboratories, and there is no longer a threat to the public.