The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board has approved a teaching position for the basketball coach at Chapel Hill High School.

In a split vote Tuesday, the Orange County commissioners kept open the possibility of siting a solid-waste transfer station on Millhouse Road, about a mile from the current garbage dump.

A federal judge agreed Monday to delay the federal trial of Demario Atwater, one of two suspects charged with murdering Eve Carson, the former UNC-Chapel Hill student body president.

Emily Eidenier Pearce wrote the book on Rogers Road. And not even she is sure where to draw the boundaries of the historic Rogers Road community.

Charlotte Ann Pate of Chapel Hill has been awarded the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting.

Town Council member Matt Czajkowski has butted heads with his colleagues over the past year and a half. Now he wants to lead them.

Matt Czajkowski told 1360 WCHL this morning he is running for mayor. His announcement was widely expected.

The Chapel Hill Town Council has passed a living-wage ordinance, setting a minimum hourly rate for most town employees at $11.06.

Mayor Tom Stevens said Wednesday that he will seek a third term.

The Bolshoi Ballet is 233 years old, and never in all that time has the grandest of all ballet troupes ever performed south of Washington, D.C., and east of the Mississippi.

Hillsborough Mayor Tom Stevens announced today he will seek a third term.

Jon Wilner is retiring as executive director of The ArtsCenter in Carrboro effective June 30.

The Lincoln Center Central Office of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will be closed from June 15 to Aug. 14 for renovation.

The Town Council cut the tax rate by 15 percent Monday, partially offsetting a townwide increase in property values from last year's countywide revaluation and holding the town's revenue from property taxes at its current level.

On a normal Sunday morning, the offering brought to the altar consists of baskets filled with nonperishable food -- cereal, canned beans and pasta for the local food pantry.

The owner of the Varsity Theatre, who last month said he is trying to sell the iconic Franklin Street movie house, wants to sell his Chelsea Theater too. "It would be a package deal," Bruce Stone said.

Two Chapel Hill sixth-graders won savings bonds, a trip to Washington and a week of glory after envisioning a system of electricity-generating roadways for a national science contest.