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UNC students resume class as normal; the main quad is routinely crowded on Jan. 10, 2019 during the first week of class.

Jack Davidson

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Could out-of-state tuition go up for UNC students?

By Nicholas Emken | Apr. 3, 2019

N.C. Sen. Tom McInnis, R-Anson, introduced a bill that would make out-of-state students at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State to pay $5,000 more in tuition for the 2019-2020 academic year.

The Community Home Trust is the asking Orange County Commissioners for $60,000 to develop an apartment complex, seen here on Friday, March 22, 2019.

Sarah Clouser

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Local affordable housing group requests funding from Orange County

By Nicholas Emken | Mar. 27, 2019

Community Home Trust, a non-profit organization that acquired a Carrboro low-income rental development in 2017, requested $80,000 from the Board of Orange County Commissioners.

UNC-Chapel Hill Students await the RU, a bus route of Chapel Hill Transit. The Board of Aldermen seeks to improve public transportation by working with Chapel Hill Transit to more effectively manage the current level of public transportation services in Carrboro , and extend service into areas of Carrboro not served by a fixed route service. Damon Seils, Board of Aldermen's liaison to the Transportation Advisory Board, discussed how transportation may be used to fight climate change and give more people the opportunity to use public transportation.

Angelica Edwards

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Stop Requested: CHT may be putting an end to controversial bus advertisements

By Nicholas Emken | Mar. 18, 2019

“I think if we’re not going be managing the content, then I think we want to make sure that we’re not putting on things that could be offensive or derisive to different groups."

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Residents of rural Orange County are getting broadband internet soon

By Nicholas Emken | Mar. 4, 2019

Thanks to a grant from the county, underserved parts of Orange County will soon be receiving internet service from a company called Open Broadband.

Robert Campbell, the head of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association, poses in front of the Rogers Road Community Center, on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Campbell has been part of the Rogers Road Neighborhood Zoning Initiative since the beginning and wants to make sure that the diversity of the community is accounted for during the process. He also says that everyone in the community should be part of the conversation, regardless of what language they speak.

Zayrha Rodriguez

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The Rogers Road community is moving ahead in its rezoning plan

By Nicholas Emken | Feb. 21, 2019

A zoning project for the Rogers Road neighborhood, created together with members of the community, aims to protect existing residents while paving the way for new businesses and housing developments.

Fred and Bonnie Powell stand on their Augusta County, Va., farmland that lies on the proposed route of the 550-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline from West Virginia to eastern North Carolina, on November 1, 2014. The Powells are not allowing Dominion Resources to survey for the right-of-way. "We re not against pipelines but the location for this is terrible," Fred Powell said. (Sean Cockerham/MCT)

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A pipeline that would run through N.C. is still fighting an environmental lawsuit

By Nicholas Emken | Feb. 17, 2019

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is set to run through parts of North Carolina, but has been significantly delayed due to legal battles with the Southern Environmental Law Center.