After four years of leading Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools as superintendent, Dr. Nyah Hamlett announced she would be leaving the district in June.

An American-Israeli hostage freed from Hamas captivity was forced to lie down at all times in a small room for weeks.

A class-action lawsuit brought by a progressive state lawmaker aims to stop a big landlord from charging purported “junk fees ...

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Three longtime educators in Texas, South Carolina and North Carolina are finalists to be Cherokee County’s next superintendent. The finalists are Aiken County Chief Officer of Instruction Dr. Amy ...

Davie County High School has made a big hire for its football program. Former Salisbury High state champion coach Brian Hinson will lead the War Eagles on the gridiron. The school announced the hiring ...

HIGHLAND COMMUNITY CENTER – Black history program, Sat., Feb. 15, 5 p.m., with speaker Andell McCoy. Raffle tickets $5 each. Everyone is invited.

Colleges and universities are creating original virtual and physical offerings to help bolster students’ well-being.

Over the weekend, protests took place across the country in response to an immigration crackdown and deportation policies ...

Some of the area's busiest intersections will see major overhauls even as funding and construction could take years.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein asked state legislators Monday to roughly double their spending so far on recovery from ...

Protests broke out in Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas and other cities across the country prompted by a new deportation policies ...