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No. 16 UNC women's basketball overpowers Ball State, 63-52, in the first round of Battle 4 Atlantis

| November 23

City & County

Chapel Hill's Stream Team keeping local streams clean

By Rachel McKinney | September 27

The Town of Chapel Hill’s water quality monitoring volunteer group, Stream Team, aims to connect residents to the environment and promote an environmentally ...

Filing period extended for School Board candidates

By Jacquelyn Melinek | September 27

This past Monday, Annetta Stokes Streater gave a premature farewell from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education as her term expires ...

Recently there have been several hit and runs between cars and pedestrians or cyclists in Chapel Hill.

Local police discuss strategies for pedestrian safety

By Ashley Peterson | September 27

A motor vehicle crash on North Greensboro Street at 4 p.m. Monday resulted in serious injury to a cyclist.

Early voting comes early to Orange County

By Jacquelyn Melinek | September 27

Early voting for local elections in Orange County starts Oct. 19 at the Orange County Board of Elections office and on Oct. 23 at the Carrboro Town Hall, ...

Target pledges to meet living wage by 2020

By Cole Kordus | September 27

By 2020 Target plans to raise their minimum wage to $15 for its 320,000 workers. Currently Target pays its workers $10 an hour, however they will ...

Carrboro Board of Aldermen meet to discuss DACA workshops, floodplain areas and affordable housing

By Erik Beene | September 26

See our live updates from the Sept. 26 Board of Aldermen meeting here:

CHCCS sees positive changes through Project Advance

By Chantal Shine | September 26

It's been a year since Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools implemented Project Advance, a new model which is designed to add supplemental pay to teacher's ...

A municipal parking lot located at 203 S. Greensboro St. in Carrboro, NC.

Planned Carrboro Library creates parking concerns

By Doug Dubrowski | September 26

Plans to bring a southern branch of the Orange County Library are complicating parking in Carrboro.

WOTS: Are you voting in Chapel Hill's municipal elections?

By Maryam Mohamed | September 25

This November, Chapel Hill and Carrboro are holding municipal elections for Town Council and Board of Aldermen respectively. In a college town like Chapel ...

Chapel Hill hosts forum to meet town council candidates

By Gregory Hall | September 25

Staff writer Gregory Hall reports live from a forum introducing the town council candidates.

University debates closing Horace Williams Airport

By Marin Wolf | September 24

The UNC Board of Trustees meets this week to discuss closing Horace Williams Airport because of reduced use and much needed repairs that will cost UNC ...

Sigmund, the Shih Tzu, smiles at the Critter Carnival on Saturday afternoon.

Changes to Critter Carnival bring event to Chapel Hill

By Samantha Yi | September 24

Southern Community Park was full of live music and plenty of animals Saturday. The park hosted the the third annual Critter Carnival to raise awareness ...

Orange County residents feed an alpaca at Perry Farm Alpacas in Hillsborough as part of National Alpaca Day on Saturday.

National Alpaca Day brings crowds to Hillsborough farm

By Maria Elena Vizcaino | September 24

Nearly a thousand Orange County residents celebrated National Alpaca Day at Perry Farm Alpacas in Hillsborough on Saturday.

Is the Blue Hill District prone to flooding?

By Alex Gailey | September 21

Concerns about stormwater runoff and flooding in the Blue Hill District continue to be voiced as the area expands with new developments. The Blue ...

Perennial Coffee and Pastries barista Anna Kasibhatla creates a new brew: a grapefruit infused spiced maple latte in 2017.

All up in your business for Sept. 22

By Ashley Peterson | September 21

Many UNC students make the trek to Carrboro for a cup of local craft coffee and peaceful environment. Walk no farther because a new coffee shop is in ...

The new Al's Burger Shack location in Southern Village had their first business day Monday.

Al takes a bite out of Chapel Hill business scene

By Erik Beene | September 21

From the moment he got behind a grill, Al Bowers knew he had a love for the food industry. Years after discovering his passion, Bowers is now the owner ...

Campaigning at a cost in Chapel Hill, Carrboro

By Lauren Talley | September 20

In the 2015 Chapel Hill mayoral race, the two front runners, Pam Hemminger and Mark Kleinschmidt, spent a combined total of $53,603.58 on their ...

The Ackland Art Museum is a museum and academic unit of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill located on S Columbia Street. Photo courtesy of Molly Sprecher.

New acquisitions highlight growing authority of self-taught African-American artists

By Seth Newkirk | September 20

Ackland Art Museum announced that they would be receiving 12 pieces from Souls Grown Deep Foundation.

Annetta Streater attends last School Board Meeting

By Chantal Shine | September 20

Annetta Stokes Streater attended her last Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education meeting on Monday night. Board Chair James Barrett recognized ...

Members of the Raging Grannies, a local activist group, made an appearance at an NAACP rally in  front of the old post office on Franklin St. Wednesday afternoon.

Local NAACP holds peace rally in Spencer's absence

By Meghana Srikrishna and Molly Horak | September 20

On the day white supremacist Richard Spencer was slated to speak at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP held “More Perfect Union: A Community ...