Driver charged in car crash at Northside Elementary playground

The driver of the vehicle and two children who were on the playground were transported to UNC Hospitals. One additional child was treated at the scene ...

Protesters call for traffic safety after two middle schoolers were struck

Organized by Anne Goldstein, the first to respond and report the accident on Dec. 31, between 150 and 200 people gathered to march down Estes Drive toward ...

Phone scam targeting registered sex offenders with fake warnings in Orange County

A phone scam in Orange County has been targeting registered sex offenders, prompting the Orange County Sheriff’s Office to warn the community about ...

Editorial: We stand with The Daily Gamecock — enough is enough.

"We will continue to use our voices as student journalists to call upon the University to be more accountable to students — not to their public image. ...

Mobile botanical shop Botana-Cart rolls out products 'of this Earth,' including Delta-8

Hunter Bolesky and Brandon Srinath aren’t average businessmen. They’re the co-owners of Botana-Cart, a bicycle-powered botanical shop.  ...

Editorial: UNC is asking the wrong questions about police on campus

"The assumption behind questions about UNC Police’s presence and programming is that UNC Police plays some kind of beneficial role for UNC students ...

Suspicious fire set at Carrboro High School, 15-year-old has been identified

Carrboro Fire Chief David Schmidt said the fire was suspicious because it was traced to a trash can in a bathroom stall where there was no heat source. ...

MLK Jr. Blvd. closed between Hillsborough and Longview streets due to gas leak

The road on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard has been closed between Longview Street and Hillsborough Street due to a gas leak, according to a tweet from ...

Editorial: Solving crimes with new technology should be police priority

"Last week’s news brought a sense of closure to a case that has loomed over the Chapel Hill community since 2012. It demonstrated how important it is ...

Tucker Frey, reported to harass women on Franklin Street, charged with trespassing

Frey was arrested Monday and charged with a Class 2 misdemeanor for trespassing. Chapel Hill has received 46 reports regarding Frey’s behavior since ...

Chapel Hill increases monitoring of busy roads following recent pedestrian crashes

The Town conducted the first of these sessions on March 23 and March 27. March’s efforts focused on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, where two pedestrian ...

Re-Imagining Community Task Force hosts racial equity, public safety listening sessions

The task force, originally established on June 24, 2020 by the Chapel Hill Town Council, has been hosting a series of listening sessions for local citizens ...

N.C. Senate Bill 100 poses a threat for cities looking to reduce police funding

The bill, also known as the Police Funding Protection Act, states any North Carolina city that reduces funds for law enforcement agencies by more than ...

Students rush Franklin Street for the second time following UNC win against Duke

Following UNC men's basketball defeat of Duke, fans rushed Franklin Street for the second time this year. Last month, officers took over 35 minutes ...

Town and University look to avoid Franklin Street rush after Saturday's UNC-Duke game

In an email, Victoria Hudson, the Orange County Director of Environmental Health, said she was unaware of any community spread impacts from the February ...

Legacy of Chapel Hill’s first Black detective remains, 50 years after his death

Theodore Roosevelt Cole Jr. was killed in 1969 on the day of his promotional ceremony to become Chapel Hill’s first Black detective.         ...

One person arrested after shots fired at Chapel Hill apartment complex

Email reveals how police prepared for Franklin St. rush after Town refuses to comment

Many students have expressed frustration with how the Chapel Hill Police Department handled the Feb. 6 Franklin Street rush, where approximately 1,000 ...

GoFundMe for carjacked Chapel Hill Insomnia driver reaches nearly $50,000

Robert Perry, a delivery driver for Insomnia Cookies, was shot and robbed in December. A co-worker of Perry started the GoFundMe hoping that it would ...