Durham NC

Durham’s long-discussed Central Bus Rapid Transit line just got a lot more real. On Thursday, city transportation staff dropped a short video that walks viewers through proposed station locations, introduces key project staff and lays out what happens next. The corridor is framed as a crucial link tying together the Duke/VA medical campus, downtown and East Durham’s Village shopping district, and residents...

Despite another addition, Duke fell in the national recruiting rankings.

Maximo Adams has gotten lost in the offseason shuffle, but the elite recruit should be a key contributor for the Tar Heels next year.

There is a plan to merge Atrium Health and WakeMed, two of North Carolina’s largest health systems.

Annual PeakFest Festival moves to Town Hall Campus; 100+ vendors, two stages of live entertainment and 45,000 attendees expected

NORTH CAROLINA — An overturned septic truck has shut down an entrance ramp to Interstate 40 from Interstate 540 on Friday afternoon, causing disruptions for drivers near Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Authorities said the truck overturned on the I-40 on-ramp, spilling the contents of its tank onto the roadway. The incident prompted officials to close Exit […] The post Part of I-40 in...

A woman in Durham County goes into store, tells clerk she had been shot and to call 911.

Local public school students will be out of classes on Friday while thousands of their teachers go to Raleigh to rally for more funding from the state. Durham, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, Chatham, and Orange County public schools added teacher workdays on Friday after thousands of employees put in requests for the day of the “Kids Over Corporations” rally (Wake County had already planned a...

A $96 million high school athletics facility in Durham, N.C., is not getting rave reviews, as the parents of athletes and school officials say the venue suffers from significant design flaws and a lack of safety netting. The new Northern High complex opened in September 2023, but since then community...

Spring menu drought? Over. Officially. Somebody tell the sad winter salad it can pack up and leave. North Carolina restaurants are finally back in their colorful, farm-fresh, patio-loving era, and they are not being humble about it. Plates are getting brighter, specials are getting louder, and every sunny table suddenly...