2017 Tar Heels of the Year: renowned chef and restaurateur, Ashley Christensen
Over the past decade, Ashley Christensen has made her mark on Raleigh through fine dining experiences that evoke a sense of comfort and community. She continues to use her platform as a local restaurateur to foster a food community and to convey t
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Helmet camera footage from Durham Engine Co 2 at a recent house fire shows what firefighters face when battling a house fire while searching for possible trapped occupants. All occupants made it safely out of the fire.
Petrina Hamm, a breast cancer survivor, founded a nonprofit called Art from Scars that will help pay for decorative or pigmentation tattoos for other survivors.
Rachel Newberry, a Mountain Heritage High School student in Burnsville, North Carolina surprised her longtime friend Ben Robinson by asking him to prom. A video of the sweet ‘promposal’ went viral.
Ipreo, a global financial services, technology, data and analytics company will hire 250 workers by expanding its operations in Wake County, state officials announced Tuesday.
Leanne Klarer of Millbrook Elementary, Myriah Luke of East Millbrook Middle, Rebeka Townsend of Rolesville High and Kennedy Wilmer of Lynn Road Elementary won the Wake County school system's 2017-18 Diane Kent Parker First-Year Teacher Award.
The NC Museum of Life + Science announced the births of rare red wolf pups on Facebook. Staff found three pups total: two males and one female. All were in good health.
Twins Aria, left, and Akira Parker of Raleigh enjoy the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) reunion at the WakeMed Raleigh Saturday, April 21, 2018. The two were born in July 2016 and spent 7 days in the NICU.
Students from high schools across Chapel Hill and Carrboro walked out of school and marched up to 4.6 miles to Franklin St.'s Peace and Justice Plaza for an anti-gun violence rally on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting.
Will Hinton, Professor of Art at Louisburg College, sees racism in Louisburg's Confederate monument, but the town won't move the statue because it's part of history.
Students at Raleigh's Enloe High School walk out of class on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting to protest gun violence, Friday, April 20, 2018.
Students from East Chapel Hill High School march down N. Lakeshore Dr. in Chapel Hill as they participate in National Walkout Day on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shootings on Friday, April 20, 2018.
Mark Christmann of Greensboro, NC, won Bull City Burger and Brewery's Tarantula Challenge lottery and chowed down on one of the last Tarantula burgers available on Thursday April 19, 2018.
