Word on the Street: What TV shows are you excited about this semester?

School is back from winter break, but perhaps more importantly, so are all of your favorite television shows! Well, maybe not ("Game of Thrones" won’t ...

New year, new Kenan: UNC will install individual seats in its home stadium

The North Carolina football program is no stranger to home-game attendance numbers that hardly ever reach capacity – but new plans for the stadium could ...

Chapel Hill celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day with NAACP events

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Branch of the NAACP, alongside various UNC organizations, are hosting several free, public events to celebrate Martin Luther ...

Q&A with meditation instructor Lori Burgwyn Hernandez

It’s time to get your meditation on. The Ackland Art Museum will be celebrating Bodhi Day on Friday in connection with its new “Religion and Ritual” ...

Q&A with Long Neck's Lily Mastrodimos

The band Long Neck will be performing a show Saturday at Local 506 with Infinity Crush and It Looks Sad. Lily Mastrodimos is the founding member of the ...

Lack of broadband access creates additional obstacles for students

One Christmas, Elly Sprinkle and her sister drove with their father to the public library in Stokes County, North Carolina, where they used the library's ...

Mid-season review: UNC women's basketball begins new era on right foot

For three years, the North Carolina women’s basketball team had been defined by who wasn’t on its roster.

Tar Heels in the Pros: Searcy, Williams and Hollins still alive in NFL Playoffs

After Wild Card weekend in the NFL Playoffs, only three former Tar Heels remain standing among the final eight teams. 

BOG-approved free speech policy could lead to student expulsion

 UNC system students and faculty can now be punished for "substantially (disrupting) the functioning of the constituent institution or substantially ...

Word on the Street: What did you binge-watch over break?

Happy FDOC! Students at UNC-Chapel Hill are back from winter break – and hopefully had enough time to catch up on their favorite ‘flix before classes ...

Chapel Hill High School's newspaper transitions to being fully online

Chapel Hill High’s student newspaper, the Proconian, will be going digital starting this year. The decision to move to an online platform was one of ...

Mainland universities offer education for Puerto Rican students displaced by hurricane

As the spring semester begins on many university campuses in the United States, some mainland schools have opened their doors to Puerto Rican students ...

Congress' DACA replacement debate continues for fourth month

Four months have passed since President Donald Trump’s September announcement repealing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and Congress ...

Under pressure, Tar Heels find outlet in 96-66 win over Boston College

The North Carolina men’s basketball team was playing double time for the first time in a long time on Tuesday night.

Another Luke Maye career night leads No. 20 North Carolina past Boston College, 96-66

After a dismal five-game stretch that saw North Carolina junior Luke Maye shoot just 33 percent from the field, the junior forward was desperate for a ...

Letter: Tax bill reflects Republican hypocrisy

Letter: Where STEM and non-STEM meet

Letter: Conceptualizing health as a human right is critical for health reform

A human right to health is more than rhetoric: it is a tool used to place the needs of the most vulnerable populations at the center of health reform. ...

Former newsroom adviser Erica Perel named general manager of The Daily Tar Heel

Erica Perel has succeeded Betsy O’Donovan as general manager of The Daily Tar Heel. Perel, who took over the position at the end of the fall 2017 semester, ...