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Basketball might not be the only madness in North Carolina this March, as the N.C. General Assembly will vote this week on a bill to move both of the ...

Volunteers asks students for Just Mercy donations

By Nicole Gonzalez | September 23

Susan Simone, a volunteer at the Orange Correctional Center, has led literacy workshops for six years that have helped turn the lives of the residents ...

Carrboro library still struggles to find location

By Molly Jordan | September 23

In downtown Carrboro, the town’s hip crowd has access to everything they could ever desire: coffee shops, an organic market and a community arts theater. ...

Education experts tell legislature to take notes on NC budget

By Brandon Oppong-Antwi | September 23

Nearly a week after N.C. legislators passed the state budget, many education experts are still unsure how to evaluate its impact.

Vinny Mammone, treasurer for Claws Inc., holds one of the organization's permanent residents Khalitra, a great horned owl who is blind in one eye.

Raptors, release and rehabilitation: Organization released rehabilitated animals

By Isabella Lupoli | September 20

Some birds prefer trees, others prefer selfies — but at Carrboro’s raptor release Saturday morning, some birds preferred the air.

Solar panels were installed on the grounds of Carrboro High School this August. Current seniors Holly Gallagher and Jocelyn Buckley led the project with help from Dan Schnitzer, the sustainability coordinator for local school systems, after being inspired by their AP Environmental Science class last school year. The panel generates clean energy for the school on a sunny Thursday afternoon, Sept. 17.

Carrboro High School installs solar panels after campaign by students

By Nicole Gonzalez | September 18

Carrboro High School has gone solar as a result of two students’ community sustainability campaign.

Years later, Carolina North timeline still up in the air

By Robin O'Luanaigh | September 18

UNC has yet to finalize plans for the 250-acre plot of land it purchased in 2009.

Hate crime status of Chapel Hill shooting discussed

By Zhai Yun Tan | September 17

Seven months after the Chapel Hill shooting, Yousef Abu-Salha, brother of the victims, is busy studying for his first exams at the UNC School of Medicine, ...

Chapel Hill mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and Carrboro mayor Lydia Lavelle host a panel discussion Monday evening at Mayor & Mayor: A Conversation about LGBTQ Struggles in North Carolina, part of the ACLU-NC 50th Anniversary Exhibit at the Chapel Hill Public Library.

Kleinschmidt and Lavelle speak at first event for ACLU 50th anniversary

By Alexa Papadopoulos | September 15

In honor of N.C. ACLU's 50th anniversary, the Chapel Hill Pubic Library is hosting a month-long program focusing on a different social justice issue each ...

Annual dog swim creates a whole new definition of doggy paddle

By Erin Kolstad | September 14

The A.D. Clark Pool at the Hargraves Community Center was filled on Sunday with the typical sounds of summer — laughing, splashing and howling.

Laughing research and north side block party

Chapel Hill unites neighbors with food, fellowship

By Kiana Cole | September 11

Laughter and applause filled the Hargraves Community Center Thursday when elementary school students wobbled their way over to their new principal, Coretta ...

Drivers ed money back on the table

By Charles Talcott | September 10

Drivers education could survive at local high schools as the Senate and House approach a compromise during budget talks, despite months of doubt over ...

How local police take advantage of Twitter

By Kiana Cole | September 9

Local police departments no longer require a phone call to be reached, but instead can be found and contacted through Twitter.

Chapel Hill Town Councilman Lee Storrow pleads guilty to DWI

By Erin Kolstad | September 4

Chapel Hill Town Councilman Lee Storrow pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving while impaired in the Orange County District Court Thursday ...

Poll: Book-banning gets approval boost

By Meg Garner | September 4

Since its release in 1951, J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” has sold more than 65 million copies, and in that time, it has continually created ...

Raleigh rezones, limits food trucks

By Yoon Ju Chung | September 2

The Raleigh City Council stirred up controversy last week — under the new zoning plans, food trucks will be blocked from operating in some areas where ...

Carrboro approves final version of mural for the kids

By Elizabeth Harvell | September 2

Carrboro could be adding a splash color to its already bright town.