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Starting Monday, Mar. 23, sections of Hillsborough’s Governor Burke Road and Carrboro’s E. Popular Avenue and Roberson Street will be closed by crews conducting repairs. A release from the North Carolina Department of Transportation said a planned pipe replacement will lead to the temporary closure of a section of...

The Orange County Public Library will host a special after-hours screening of the 2025 documentary Natchez on Friday, March 27, 2026, from 7–9 p.m. at the Main Library, 137 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough. The film by Suzannah Herbert explores the past and future of historic Natchez, Mississippi, and its ties to...

With gun killings climbing fast in Durham, a packed community room on Friday turned into a kind of emergency town hall, as city and county leaders sat face to face with residents for a City-County conversation on how to stop the violence. The session, one of several planned as part...

Cheers broke out Friday morning as the covering dropped to reveal the new lettering.

A 17-year-old accused of gunning down an 18-year-old in the lobby of a Durham motel has been moved into the Durham County Detention Center, according to jail records, marking a new phase in a case that has been winding through pretrial proceedings for months. Authorities allege the teen, identified in...

Every weekday, Inside Carolina senior reporter Greg Barnes weighs in with his thoughts on the latest in Tar Heel sports. Barnes has been the preeminent reporter and expert analyst on UNC athletics for two decades. Watch his full daily thoughts above. Greg’s Daily Take:“I know fans like to throw out if Carolina...

Some restaurants feed you. Others make you set an alarm, rearrange your plans, and show up early just to guarantee a spot in line. North Carolina has more than its fair share of the second kind, and the locals who know about them treat that knowledge like a closely guarded secret.

Kenneth Brown, assistant director of first-generation student support services at Elon University, is continuing his journey toward becoming a chaplain. Though Brown can’t pinpoint the specific moment he decided to become a chaplain, he said the discovery of this passion was more like pulling the strings from various...

DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — Dozens gathered for a community conversation Friday, as Durham County and city leaders continue working to develop a Violence Prevention Plan aimed at curbing gun violence. “I had two family members get killed by gun violence within the last year,” said Rita McDaniel, “The city...

It was a tale of two cities along Tobacco Road on Thursday night.