In Wake County’s House District 37, a similar message from two wildly different messengers, Erin Paré and Winn Decker.

State legislators should incentivize residents to be less reliant on cars and help cities like Durham offer bus and bike ...

As trees are cut down for new developments, Durham has managed to gain about 7 square miles of tree coverage since 2016, ...

DHA officials updated the Durham City Council on efforts to turn its properties into mixed-income housing and move tenants from aging public housing to Section 8 vouchers.

After Christina Jones was elected to her first term on the Raleigh City Council in 2022, she set up a monthly meeting with representatives from the dozen or so organizations that had endorsed her ...

In one of Wake County’s last battleground districts, Democrat Evonne Hopkins challenges one-term GOP Rep. Mike Schietzelt to a rematch ...

Students walk through the hall at Lyons Farm Elementary School in Durham, NC on October 9, 2026. Credit: Photo by Matt Ramey When fifth-grade teacher Megan Lewis was hired to teach at Lyons Farm ...

For victims and defendants alike, going to court can be intimidating. Even before the proceedings begin, courtrooms convey a sternness in their design: windowless, blank walls, austere furnishings, ...

My MO at the N.C. State Fair has historically been to make like Fern from Charlotte’s Web and ride the Ferris wheel with my crush. The older I get, though, the more fearful I seem to become of both ...

One recent evening, I attended a rehearsal for Burning Coal Theatre’s new production of Travesties, a play by the cerebral ...

Saved from the demolition site of the Elion-Hitchings building in 2020, Elizabeth Murray’s 1977 painting is now restored and on view at Durham's Nasher Museum of Art.