Will Potter, 16-year veteran of department, to be new Carrboro fire chief
(05/23/23 8:11pm)
Will Potter will be the next Carrboro fire chief, Town Manager Richard J. White III announced this afternoon.
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Will Potter will be the next Carrboro fire chief, Town Manager Richard J. White III announced this afternoon.
On Monday afternoon, Carrboro Town Council member Barbara Foushee announced her candidacy for Mayor of Carrboro.
As graduates settled into their seats at UNC’s Class of 2023 Spring Commencement on May 14, a video of a familiar face addressed the crowd.
On Saturday, May 13, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed Senate Bill 20 — which would ban abortions in North Carolina after 12 weeks with some exceptions — in front of a crowd of doctors, politicians, clinic escorts and hundreds of pro-choice North Carolinians at Bicentennial Plaza in Raleigh.
The Chapel Hill Police Department responded to a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Perkins Drive on Wednesday night at 9:40 p.m. The pedestrian — identified as John Arthur Holman, 77, of Chapel Hill — died at the scene and the driver of the vehicle remained at the scene.
Update 05/03/23, 4:10 p.m.: Lisa Marie Yanez, 50, of Carrboro has been identified as the driver of the vehicle and Vaughn Avery Booker, 40, of Durham has been identified as the passenger, according to the Town of Chapel Hill.
Updated 05/16/23, 9:13 p.m.: Gov. Cooper’s veto was overridden by both houses of the NCGA on Tuesday. The votes were along party lines — 30-20 in the Senate and 72-48 in the House.
The Lumbee Tribe, the largest Indigenous tribe in North Carolina and east of the Mississippi River, is continuing its 135-year-long pursuit of federal recognition through the Lumbee Fairness Act.
Orange County residents lead the state's average life expectancy by almost four years.
While Chapel Hill and Carrboro border one another, the towns handle parking finances and enforcement very differently.
Gov. Roy Cooper addressed the N.C. General Assembly and other state leaders tonight in his fourth State of the State address. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson provided the GOP’s response immediately afterward in a pre-recorded speech.
New diversity trainings and referral bonuses for employees of Orange County Schools were discussed by the Board of Education during its meeting on Monday night.
When trying to move to Chapel Hill in the 1960s, Howard Lee and his wife Lillian were prevented from buying a home in Colony Woods, a predominantly-white neighborhood.
In March 2022, VinFast, a Vietnamese electric car manufacturer, announced that it would be building its first-ever manufacturing facility in the U.S. at Triangle Innovation Point in Chatham County.
The Town of Chapel Hill operates more than 300 Town-owned affordable housing units for low-income residents in both Chapel Hill and Carrboro. These units are administrated through the Chapel Hill Department of Public Housing and include single units, duplexes, triplexes and row housing complexes.
Content warning: This article contains mention of suicide and self-harm.
Although Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is one of the highest-paying school districts in North Carolina, teachers are increasingly unable to afford housing in the district.
Before working with people who experience housing insecurity, Katina Welch was unhoused herself.
The Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau recently launched Chapel Hill Diversity, a digital resource intending to support and promote businesses owned by people of color in Orange County.
On Oct. 3, demonstrators raising pickleball paddles and signs that read “We are many” and “We are diverse” attended the Chapel Hill Town Council work session to encourage Town funding of more pickleball courts.