Penny Rich, a Chapel Hill Town Council member and Mark Dorosin, a managing attorney at the UNC Center for Civil Rights, both won the Democratic primary May 8 for the Orange County Board of Commissioners in District 1.

Town officials do not yet know how the Chapel Hill 2020 comprehensive plan will be funded ­— but they also aren’t worried about it.

Despite an injunction that invalidates it, the Chapel Hill Town Council chose to amend a towing ordinance Monday to avoid conflict with the town’s cellphone ordinance.

Chapel Hill’s new cellphone ban has been replete with controversy. Now, concerns extend past driving to focus on gay and lesbian rights.

A 121-year-old church that served as a symbol of Germanton, N.C. could move to Carrboro as early as October, but not if residents in the church’s hometown have their way.

In the week since the Chapel Hill Town Council made the landmark decision to ban all cell phone use among drivers on municipal roads, Town Hall inboxes have been flooded with emails.

Students at Chapel Hill High School usually learn civics out of textbooks, but on Thursday afternoon their lesson plan got a little more personal.

After two years of discussion, Chapel Hill Town Council voted 5-4 Monday night to ban the use of cellphones while driving. The ban covers both handheld and hands-free cellphones, making Bluetooth earpieces and built-in wireless connectors in newer car models illegal.

Expected cuts to a federal program for affordable housing have led local nonprofit organizations to look for funding elsewhere.

After a three year salary freeze, Chapel Hill town officials might need to raise pay to stay competitive and retain employees.

Rob Garner planned to sell sausages wrapped in French bread out of his food truck, Baguettaboutit, on the streets of Chapel Hill as early as Thursday. But after the town announced last week that they would not begin accepting applications from food trucks until Thursday, Garner will now have to wait a bit longer.

An online petition started to oppose a student housing development has collected more than 300 signatures — even though The Retreat has not yet been proposed to Chapel Hill Town Council.

The future of public transportation in Chapel Hill is in transit, and money is at the core of the issue.

The Chapel Hill Town Council moved forward with plans Monday night for a cellphone ban that the N.C. attorney general has said the local government might not have authority to enforce.

While a proposed ban on cellphone usage while driving has stalled, local officials are turning toward other options to keep Chapel Hill’s roads safe.

A long-awaited answer to the town’s growing downtown parking and towing issue may be reached at Monday’s Chapel Hill Town Council meeting.

Recent Chapel Hill Town Council meetings have kept officials and attendees up past their bedtimes — but officials hope a regulation on public petitions could improve time management.

When Chapel Hill Town Council passed an ordinance last week to allow food trucks in town regularly, they also passed what some owners say is a cost-prohibitive fee schedule.

An online discussion forum will delay and possibly replace plans for a private investigation into the Yates Motor Company building raid. But some residents doubt the forum — which will allow anyone to comment on the Nov. 13 police break-up of a trespassing “Occupy Everything” encampment — will be an effective way to create a timeline of what actually happened.

Bill Christian has spent almost five years waiting to build Charterwood, his mixed-use development. But, like many developers, he has had to combat a daunting town-approval process.