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During August, we celebrate Black Business Month by honoring the culture, the flavor, and the excellence of the South’s most iconic Black-owned restaurants. From BBQ that’ll change your life to catfish that tastes like Sunday, and even upscale dining with soul, these spots are true must-visits. We kicked things off...

In this episode, we sit down with Joe Clark, Fleet Management Director for the city of Durham, North Carolina, and Assistant Director John Ferguson. Durham was recognized as a Top 20 Leading Fleet for 2025, and Clark has led the department through major transitions while preparing the next generation of leadership....

The City of Durham is drafting big plans to help residents get around without a car, through hopes of launching a Bus Rapid Transit system (BRT). The project, which is just in the preliminary planning stage, would bring BRT to a corridor stretching from the Duke Hospital to a shopping center in East Durham. It would...

DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — A fire broke out at a home in Durham late Monday morning, the fire department said. According to the Durham Fire Department, firefighters responded to the blaze shortly after 11:30 a.m. near the corner of Hugo Street and Cascadilla Street. Emergency personnel said heavy smoke...

NORTH CAROLINA — Three teenagers were taken into custody early Tuesday following a string of car break-ins in Cary that ended with two separate crashes, police said. Around 2:45 a.m., officers responded to reports of four vehicles broken into at an apartment complex on Ansley Stream Lane, off N.C. Highway 55. On the...

From DMs to drinks: adult friendship unlocked. Making friends in adulthood is hard—period. On any given day we’re consumed with exhausting work schedules, squeezed-in Pilates sessions, dinner dates and a laundry list of tedious tasks (NTM laundry). Mix in moving to a new city where you don’t know a soul, and you’ve...

Raleigh’s restaurant scene burns bright—and often burns out. Standing in the five-hourlong line for one last meal at 42nd St. Oyster Bar—just hours before the nearly century-old seafood and steak institution shuttered for good—it’s never been more clear how deeply these restaurant relics matter to Raleighites, woven...

Sheetz is celebrating the grand opening of its 800th store with freebies for customers.

For the first time in 20 years, people can catch a Greyhound bus in Chapel Hill. As of Aug. 1, Greyhound now stops four times a day on a route that runs between Raleigh and Asheville, with stops in Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Statesville and Hickory. The buses stop at Chapel Hill’s Eubanks Road park-and-ride lot, just...

It’s not the biggest threat to public safety, I admit, but panhandling along and often on North Carolina roadways is illegal, dangerous, counterproductive — and commonplace. During my daily travels in the capital city, I routinely see panhandlers approach idling cars at traffic lights and stop signs to beg motorists...