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Local organization looks for cat foster parents

By Wei Zhou | August 28

Pamela Clark started fostering cats two years and 50 felines ago.

Q&A with journalist, author Lev Grossman

By Everett Handy | August 27

Lev Grossman, book critic and technology writer at Time magazine, released the final novel in his “Magicians” trilogy, “The Magician’s Land.” ...

Coal ash bill passes at end of NC session

By Sharon Nunn | August 27

Right before adjourning their short session, state legislators passed a bill Aug. 20 addressing coal ash regulations for energy companies — but ...

Oversight forces Chapel Hill to lose housing bid

By Caroline Hudson | August 27

Chapel Hill residents hoping for more affordable housing options will have to wait.

The Visual Reactions exhibit by a Kuwaiti artist on display in the FedEx Global Center.

Internationalist Bookstore turns new page in Carrboro

By Patrick Millett | August 27

A longtime hub for political and philosophical thought in Chapel Hill, non-profit Internationalist Bookstore and Community Center is moving to Carrboro ...

Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department seeks public opinion

By Morgan Swift | August 26

Carrboro is seeking feedback from its residents to better cater to their recreation needs.

NC voters will decide on right to jury trial

By Benji Schwartz | August 26

North Carolina voters will have the chance to add an amendment to the state’s constitution during the November election.

Professor Liu's autopsy was released

By Jenny Surane | August 26

A string of crimes landed the two men charged with killing a UNC professor this summer in and out of a jail cell in the past five years.

HOPE Gardens uses organic methods in agriculture to grow produce in vegetable plots and herb gardens. The land is owned by the town of Chapel Hill and the produce is for members of the community, including homeless and low-income people.

Chapel Hill looks at selling Homestead Road property

By Sofia Leiva | August 26

Plots rich with organically grown vegetables scatter the lot on 2200 Homestead Road. Every Saturday morning, members of HOPE Gardens and other volunteers ...

All up in your business, August 26, 2014

August 26

After more than 90 years in business on Franklin Street, Sutton’s Drug Store opened its doors for dinner for the first time Thursday.

22 companies collaborated this weekend to create the North Carolina state beer at Mystery Brewing Company in Hillsborough.

Erica Tieppo, from Detroit, Michigan, works with the beer through its fermentation process.

Franklin Street breweries help craft NC state beer

By Mary Helen Moore | August 25

Two Chapel Hill breweries teamed up with 20 other members of the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild this weekend to create North Carolina’s first state ...

NC NAACP targets 2013 NC voting law

By Sarah Brown | August 25

A shorter early voting period and the elimination of same-day voter registration are two parts of North Carolina’s year-old voting law slated to impact ...

Chapel Hill High School teachers criticize school culture

By Claire Nielsen | August 25

When Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools started Monday, not everyone was excited to begin the new year.

Tenants buy into 123 W. Franklin St.

By Dree Deacon | August 24

Tenants for Chapel Hill’s upcoming mixed-use project at 123 W. Franklin St. are beginning to line up.

Moral Monday protests resumed Monday at the Bicentennial Mall in front of the legislative building in Raleigh.

More Moral Monday cases dismissed by NC judges

By Blair Burnett | August 24

More than a dozen cases of protesters arrested during the 2013 Moral Monday protests have been dismissed in the last four weeks — and in a legal ...

Students are venturing into the world of mixology

By Paige Hopkins | August 24

UNC students bring Chapel Hill bars and clubs to life. And many of them are doing so from behind the counter.

Protestors gather at the Peace and Justice Plaza on Friday to show support of everyone who is resisting in Ferguson, Missouri.

Ferguson protests come to Chapel Hill

By Aren Besson | August 24

A collection of more than 100 protesters, student activists and Triangle residents marched on Franklin Street Friday night with one clear goal: to stand ...