Normally, the first weekend of March Madness is a celebration for North Carolina. One filled with anxiety — but the anxiety of a team with title aspirations, looking to roll through lower- and middle-tier opponents on the way to the Sweet 16. But this March, it was different.
Tracks Local Music Fest, a free outdoor concert in downtown Chapel Hill, will be held for the first time at CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio at 123 West Franklin St. on Saturday from 3 to 7 p.m. Chapel Hill Community Arts & Culture is collaborating with Carolina Performing Arts to host the concert.
Captain Rahsheem Holland's conduct toward protesters on April 30 — and in protests at a 2021 Board of Trustees meeting — raises concerns about police accountability at UNC.
With the spring semester approaching, Carolina Housing expanded its isolation dorms to include Craige and Horton. Now, both students who are exposed and have a positive test will be housed in the same buildings.
The program is set to open three COVID-19 testing locations on campus starting next semester. Students will be able to self-administer a noninvasive nose swab test, a shift from UNC’s use of saliva testing in the fall.
Despite early struggles from AP preseason player of the year Luka Garza, No. 3 Iowa's late-game 14-0 run sealed its win over No. 16 North Carolina, 93-80.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners met Monday night to pass a resolution on reparations, elect new members to the board and listen to public response over the proposed Buc-ee’s gas station on Interstate 85.
North Carolina football has improved since last year, but after two disappointing losses, the Tar Heels will have one last chance this season to prove they have truly arrived on a national stage.
The commission voted unanimously to approve the dossier for removing the name of Morrison Residence Hall as its next recommendation to Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz.
Due to a longer Winter Break, some UNC students are more vulnerable to food insecurity. To combat this, the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Mothers Club worked with Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe and Brandwein's Bagels to provide meals for students.
Approximately 20 percent of UNC classes are scheduled to occur in person, said Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz at Friday's meeting.
Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools are moving forward with plans to begin a hybrid learning model for the second semester. Here's how community members are responding.
A movement that began with Trayvon Martin's death in 2012 sparked worldwide protests that have continued into 2020. “Protesting is not designed to be peaceful, but it works best when it’s nonviolent,” Greear Webb, a young activist and UNC sophomore, said. “It’s supposed to be disruptive. It’s supposed to be discomforting for people.”
The North Carolina football team blew out Western Carolina, 49-9, in a game that was decided well before the end of the first half.
By halftime, Kennedy Todd-Williams carried 10 points, six boards and six assists into the break through only 13 minutes of playing time, en route to her final stat line of 14 points, 10 rebounds, nine assists and four steals.
The No. 14 North Carolina basketball team fell to No. 17 Texas on Wednesday, 69-67, clawing back from a 12-point first-half deficit only to see Longhorn guard Matt Coleman III nail a game-winning jumper with 0.1 seconds left. Here are three takeaways from the game — and the Maui tournament as a whole.
“I feel like we’re battle-tested, I feel like we’ve been through everything we could’ve possibly been through after last year,” Black said. “We’ve got some guys that are willing to learn and fight when the going gets tough. That’s all you can ask for.”
UNC alum Tracy Deonn’s most recent young adult fantasy novel “Legendborn” tells the story of 16-year-old Bree Matthews as she discovers a magical world of Arthurian legends and secret societies on UNC Chapel Hill's campus.
Student Affairs will be releasing data regarding non-compliance to the University's community standards for the upcoming semester.
After 36 years, the Greene Tract, a 164-acre parcel of land that is part of the historic Rogers Road Neighborhood area, remains undeveloped. The land is jointly owned by Orange Count, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro.
Community members gathered on Nov. 21 in remembrance of James Lewis Cates, marching from the Hargraves Community Center to the Peace and Justice Plaza, where a memorial had been set up for the day. Cates, a Black man and resident of the Northside neighborhood in Chapel Hill, was 22 when he was stabbed in 1970 outside the Carolina Union by members of a white supremacist biker gang.
SFFA claims that UNC’s admissions policies violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, and are intentionally discriminatory against white and Asian American applicants.
