Durham NC

Durham residents have the opportunity to decide how $2.4 million in city funds will be allocated, with voting now open. The Participatory Budgeting Durham (PB Durham) initiative includes 10 community-selected projects, such as park repairs and the installation of public charging stations. According to the City of...

The party in Person County was shutdown for safety reason, the sheriff office says.

MORRISVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — The Morrisville Police Department is looking for the people they say are responsible for setting off illegal fireworks at Church Street Park, damaging the cricket field. “It’s unfortunate that the park was used as a fireworks display center,” said Cindi King, Associate Director for...

Wake County has the second-largest Medicaid enrollment in the state.

If there’s one thing every Duke student loves to hate — other than a Tar Heel — it has to be renovations. They are the bane of our existence and the object of almost no desires. I, along with many peers in the Class of 2028, will tell you that renovations made my time on East Campus truly kafkaesque. I cannot...

Durham, North Carolina, was nicknamed the “Bull City” in the late 1800s when the Blackwell Tobacco Company named its product “Bull” Durham Tobacco. Durham is also famously known as the “City of Medicine,” with healthcare as a major industry, including more than 300 medical and health-related companies and medical...

A wreck involving a log truck forced law enforcement to close a section of Bahama Road in Rougemont on Tuesday, according to Durham County Sheriff’s Office.

Sallie B. Howard School mourns kindergarten teacher Brijette Basden, 24, who was killed in a crash on I-40. Her sister survived with non-life-threatening injuries. The investigation continues.

Alliance Residential Company has purchased 13.63 acres at 2610 South Miami Blvd. in Durham for a new 270-unit apartment development called Broadstone RTP. The company expects to complete the Class A garden-style community by late 2026. The site is close to Research Triangle Park and several major employers, including...

On a crisp fall day, the Board of Trustees of a small Southern college gathers for an emergency meeting. Their task is an unpleasant one: to decide the fate of a young professor whose comments in the media had ignited a firestorm of controversy. He had made remarks about a...