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Carolina Athletic Association presidential election heads to runoff

By Emily Shih | February 28

The president's role is to represent student athletes within CAA and serve as a liaison between UNC athletics and student sports fans. The election will ...

Roy Williams reaches 900-win mark in victory over Florida State

By Hunter Nelson | February 27

“I've said it before, I'll look back on it one of these days and say, 'Hey, that was pretty neat,’” Roy Williams said. “But I was focused on one ...

Walker Kessler hits his stride, seals Roy Williams' 900th win with 20-point breakout game

By Brian Keyes | February 27

First-year big man Walker Kessler has always oozed potential, with his size and the possibility of one day stretching his range out to the three-point ...

Campus Rec and Student Wellness implement outreach program for students in isolation

By Lauren Cook | February 25

This semester, UNC Campus Recreation and Student Wellness are working together to implement an outreach program that helps students connect with one another ...

November municipal elections could be delayed until spring of 2022

By Kelli Rainer | February 25

Every 10 years, district lines are redrawn in North Carolina based on census data to maximize the accuracy of political representation in districts. But ...

UNC baseball opens weekend series with 3-2 win over No. 2 Virginia

By Madi Kirkman | February 25

The North Carolina baseball team (5-0, 1-0 ACC) defeated Virginia (3-2, 0-1 ACC), the No. 2 ranked team by Baseball America, 3-2 at Boshamer Stadium for ...

Chapel Hill Town Council split over Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. redevelopment project

By Kayla Guilliams | February 25

The project would redevelop the nonoperational Marathon Service Station and the Tar Heel Mobile Home Park by building a new gas station, convenience store ...

After traveling to 193 countries, UNC professor Jim Kitchen sets his sights on space

By Chelsea Ramsey | February 25

He recently finished writing a book detailing his travels, "A Bigger World," which is scheduled to release in mid-2021.

Meet Lisa Kaylie, the CHCCS Board of Education's newest appointee

By Elias Horowitz | February 25

Lisa Kaylie, a former chairperson of CHCCS’s Special Needs Advisory Council, was appointed to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education ...

After loss to Marquette, UNC basketball loses grip on NCAA Tournament bid

By Zachary Crain | February 25

“We’ve laid an egg a couple of times this year, and let's make sure we say this right here: Marquette beat our rear-ends,” head coach Roy Williams ...

Administrative Board of The Graduate School provides feedback on proposed budget cuts

By Max Hazerjian | February 24

Members of the Graduate School's Administrative Board met for the first time this semester on Feb. 23 to discuss challenges to graduate education at the ...

State legislature passes bill to send students back to school, awaits governor approval

By Guillermo Molero | February 24

It doesn’t appear to have Gov. Cooper’s support, despite him calling on K-12 school districts across the state to allow in-person instruction earlier ...

UNC hosts North Carolina's poet laureate as 2021 writer-in-residence

By Sophie Seoyoung Cho | February 24

On Monday night, Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina’s first African American and third woman poet laureate, spoke at the first of this week’s Frank ...

School district program aims to combat food insecurity during pandemic

By Graham Hill | February 24

Food for Students has made an effort to not only provide food, but also connect with students: dropping off ingredients for recipes like blueberry muffins, ...

Here's what you need to know about vaccinations in Orange County

By Trevor Moore | February 24

North Carolina will start vaccinating school and childcare workers on Feb. 24 as the state enters Group 3 of its vaccine distribution plan.

A look inside: Wegmans in Chapel Hill opens its doors to the public

By Jacob Meredith-Andrews | February 24

New York supermarket chain Wegmans opened its long-awaited Chapel Hill location on Wednesday. Shoppers lined up for over an hour to be the first customers ...

Cooper says N.C. bars can open indoors, other COVID-19 restrictions eased

By Sonia Rao | February 24

For the first time since March, bars in North Carolina will be able to open indoors. Cooper announced this and an ease in many other COVID-19 restrictions ...

Sophomore Lamar Richards elected 2021-2022 student body president

By Maddie Ellis and Hannah Rosenberger | February 24

Richards received 59.7 percent of the 3,219 votes cast in the election, defeating his opponent, junior Keshav Javvadi, by 851 votes, according to the ...

Orange County School Board renames C.W. Stanford Middle School

By Bethany Lee | February 23

“We are responsible for school and community climate," board member Jennifer Moore said. "We are having to address issues of inequity because our predecessors ...

Chapel Hill Transit redesigns bus stops to make public transportation more accessible

By Kathryn Goodwin | February 23

“When things are made ADA-compliant and made more accessible, physically that just enhances this for everyone,” Corey Root, the Orange County ...