The cafeteria inside the State Legislative Building has been on my list of places-to-try since I started writing this column. It’s about as hidden as a hidden gem gets—literally underground, in the ...

Talking with filmmaker Eli Yetter- Bowman about PFAS, the Cape Fear River, and 'GenX: The Saga of Forever Chemicals.' ...

A fried chicken sandwich from Home Plate Chicken is held aloft at the Durham Bulls stadium. Credit: Photo by Matt Ramey Sometimes I go to the movies and skip the concession stand, content to feast ...

Halloween weekend is, of course, the perfect time to go out in search of the offbeat and unusual. This year, Durhamites won’t have to look very hard. October 30 marks the first day of the Durham ...

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

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

Several years ago, Tressie McMillan Cottom drove her mother, Vivian McMillan, from Charlotte to Winston-Salem for a 50th anniversary party of the local Black Panther Party. Seeing her mother with ...

Durham’s parks ranked dead last in the national 2026 ParkScore index. Durham officials owe residents a plan to get out of ...

The Durham Association of Educators is advocating for six broad priorities aimed at improving pay and working conditions.

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 ...