Photographs of the North Carolina State Fair, over the years, by photographer Avery Danziger.

Schools like UNC-Chapel Hill major cuts to research funding, but the pipeline for new grants is shrinking. Researchers are left in limbo.

UNC Health dropped the software Bidshift after a plan to make nurses bid against each other for extra shifts caused a social media firestorm.

Under pressure from residents, the town council is reconsidering Apex Police Department’s contract with Flock, a license plate surveillance system.

State law encourages the two major parties to be equally represented among poll workers, a challenge in mostly Democratic or unaffiliated Durham.

Thousands of N.C. students are getting college credits, professional certifications, and even degrees while they’re still in high school. By 2028, Durham Public Schools hopes a quarter of its graduate...

Amid an anti-LGBTQ climate and bans against transgender athletes, a deadlifting group in Durham offers queer people a sense of self.

All of our election resources for Wake, Durham, and Orange counties, including a sample ballot tool, voter registration info, and more.

Talking with Meg Brown, Exhibits Coordinator at Duke Library, about the three Declaration of Independence copies on display in Durham,.

Thousands of N.C. students are getting college credits, professional certifications, and even degrees while they’re still in high school. By 2028, Durham Public Schools hopes a quarter of its graduate...

A look at Pride: Durham, NC events and the history of Durham Pride.

Thousands of N.C. students are getting college credits, professional certifications, and even degrees while they’re still in high school. By 2028, Durham Public Schools hopes a quarter of its graduate...

Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school NAACP chapter. Their friendship would go on to make history.

Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school NAACP chapter. Their friendship would go on to make history.

State law encourages the two major parties to be equally represented among poll workers, a challenge in mostly Democratic or unaffiliated Durham.

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Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.

Growing pains, schools, and property taxes are hot issues in three state legislative contests in Wake County.

The work of the LGBTQ Center of Durham and the need to "impose beauty on our future."

Chris Frisina's rambling, fingerpicked folk music as Lou Hazel melds observation, humor, reflection, and nostalgia.

Remembering Adventure Landing, the theme park and entertainment center which opened in 1988, as Raleigh grapples with a loss of third spaces for teens.

Community members and volunteers are helping to build a growing library and People’s Archive at the LGBTQ Center of Durham.

Talking with Jameela F. Dallis about her debut poetry collection, "Encounters for the Living and the Dead."

Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.

Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.

Chris Frisina's rambling, fingerpicked folk music as Lou Hazel melds observation, humor, reflection, and nostalgia.

After four months of public deliberation and some additional concessions from the state’s largest hospital system, commissioners voted 5-2 for changes that will allow the deal to go through.

A rezoning request for a planned church outside Chapel Hill is now a federal case, with religious-freedom groups and the U.S. Department of Justice weighing in.

Changes to the WakeMed-Atrium combination proposal include $150 million for the county, more county control, and more indigent care.

Amid an anti-LGBTQ climate and bans against transgender athletes, a deadlifting group in Durham offers queer people a sense of self.

Early fall is migration season of the chimney swifts, small birds belonging to the swift family that roost inside chimneys.

Davie Poplar has been chosen by migrating chimney swifts for roosting. It may be the only documented natural roosting site in the state.

At the Thursday-night meeting, local arts workers celebrated the adoption of the plan, which has been in the works for four years, while calling for more clarity around funding initiatives and plan im...

Nobody at the Carrboro diner needs a menu, least of all the 87-year-old regular who swears by the bologna sandwich.

Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.

Amid an anti-LGBTQ climate and bans against transgender athletes, a deadlifting group in Durham offers queer people a sense of self.

Boardinghouse Arts, Shirlette Ammons and Laura Ritchie's venture, picks up where Ritchie's former gallery the Carrack Modern Art left off.

Una investigación de INDY revela que jueces y magistrados de Durham han señalado repetidamente a personas para que se verifique su ciudadanía cuando no era necesario, lo que ha llevado a que algunas p...

Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.

The Raleigh contemporary art museum’s decision to sell comes after a 2020 rezoning made the property much more valuable.

WakeMed says the deal is needed to modernize its flagship hospital in the economically vulnerable neighborhood. Some Southeast Raleigh residents and local leaders are skeptical.