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GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is celebrating the enrollment of over 19,000 students for the fall semester, helping the school reach its highest total enrollment since the COVID-19 pandemic.   Highlighted by more than 2,700 first-time college students, the university is touting

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — For several families with loved ones buried at Piedmont Memorial Park Cemetery in Greensboro, a visit to their loved one’s resting place has turned into manual labor. They bring lawnmowers and equipment to clear grass and weeds overgrowing on graves. This isn’t FOX8’s first time visiting the c

For years, people kept asking the same question: Why doesn’t Greensboro Pride have a parade?. Christien Harden, co-director and co-chair of IMPAQT GSO, the organization behind Greensboro Pride, said there were several reasons it hadn’t happened. Downtown Greensboro is only so big, the organization has limited staff and

(WGHP) — A heat advisory will be in place for Caswell, Alamance and Montgomery Counties on Thursday. Sunny to partly sunny skies on Thursday with lows in the low to middle 70s. It will be another very hot and muggy afternoon with highs in the mid to upper 90s. But in a few communities, when […]

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The Road to 10,000 is an initiative the City of Greensboro announced a year and a half ago as an approach to increase housing and keep up with the expected population growth by 2030. At first, some wondered if the approach was too aggressive, but a year and a half into […]

You rarely read about major growth in North Carolina without Charlotte or the Research Triangle being mentioned in the same breath. Charlotte has long been a banking powerhouse, while the Research Triangle, home to Research Triangle Park, has established itself as a center for technology and biotech. Yet within the sta

JAMESTOWN, N.C. — As it wraps up its annual Awesome August sale, Top 100 retailer Furnitureland South is offering a one-of-a-kind Hancock & Moore leather chair to those who know America best. The Jamestown, N.C.-based retailer is bringing its summer-long celebration of America’s 250th anniversary to a close with...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — It’s about to get even hotter. Highs on Wednesday are expected to be a degree or two above where they topped out at on Tuesday, with widespread humidity. As a result, a Heat Advisory has been issued for much of central North Carolina and...

In Raleigh, opposition built quickly: residents filled all 30 public-comment slots.

ELON, N.C. (WGHP) — Most people in their 20s haven’t thought about what will happen after they die, but Aidan Steinbach, 25, isn’t like most people. “Death has been repetitive and constant in my life,” Steinbach told FOX8’s Katie Nordeen during a recent conversation over Zoom from his home in San Francisco. “I became v