Durham NC

There’s a moment when you bite into the perfect biscuit that time seems to stand still. At Elmo’s Diner in Durham, North Carolina, that moment stretches into a full-blown temporal anomaly. You’ll find yourself wondering if you’ve accidentally stumbled through a portal to comfort food heaven, where calories...

Turns out they will keep a light on for you – even if you’re from Durham. (But apparently only if the Eno River is in your living room.) We recently reported how the Candlewood Suites motel stiff-armed a couple that fled its home after floodwaters from Chantal sent them scurrying to higher, drier ground. The front...

Plastered across the newsroom of the Campus Echo, the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) student newspaper, are a collection of laminated, yellowing editions of the paper, dozens of student journalism award plaques, and photos of former Echo staff on campus, at cookouts, and on team road trips. A sign at the...

Nearly a full month removed from Tropical Depression Chantal’s significant rain and subsequent flooding, victims in Orange County and other impacted regions have a new way to seek individual relief. North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein officially declared the storm a Type I State Disaster on Tuesday, with the executive...

The Durham City Council voted 6-1 late Monday night against a proposed career development center on the eastern edge of downtown. The Durham Rescue Mission and developer McAdams sought to rezone 3.5 acres along South Alston Avenue and South Holman Street, saying the career center would help address homelessness in...

J.B. Mills House | Chatham County, NC | Built c. 1910. [All Photos in this post are courtesy of Jenna Alexander and Kim Beach Wrenn]. Hidden today behind a wall of bamboo and tangled vines, the J.B. Mills House in Chatham County, North Carolina, is easy to overlook. But a century ago, it stood proudly at the...

This HBCU is making big changes following on-campus violence from 2024. The post HBCU homecoming rules change following shooting appeared first on HBCU Gameday .

The accident happened on I-440 East between Wake Forest Road and Capital Boulevard.

On any given night, a half-dozen or more children and teenagers are sleeping in a Wake County government building. They sleep on air mattresses in converted conference rooms, tucked away from public spaces across multiple floors of Wake County’s Human Services Swinburne building. There’s one shower. All their meals...

Durham police say they conducted a traffic stop as part of a felony domestic violence investigation and the driver sped off.