Kamala Harris swept through Durham in the presidential election, winning the county with a striking 79.83 percent of the vote. But in the end, it…
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On Sept. 17, Brittany Thomas received a text message from a distressed teacher at Merrick-Moore Elementary School. The air conditioning had broken down at Merrick-Moore,…
Duke University senior Catherine Flanagan arrived at the March 2024 polls excited and prepared, with her driver’s license and list of preferred candidates in hand.…
Editor’s note: Since this story was published, the state Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the state Republican Party in its suit against…
This election season, The 9th Street Journal is sitting down with candidates to chat about their priorities — over frozen pops. Our reporter Storey Wertheimer…
When Theresa Dowell Blackinton enrolled her kindergartener at Club Boulevard Elementary, she worried about the maintenance of the school’s nearly 75-year-old campus. School administration assured…
Durham Public Schools will join hundreds of other school systems, including 14 in North Carolina, and 42 attorneys general, in a lawsuit against Meta, Google,…
A Courthouse Moment is a series of occasional stories reported by Duke student journalists as the action unfolds in front of them in the Durham…
Editors’ Note: Eleven candidates — all Democrats — are vying for five seats on the Durham County Board of Commissioners in the March 5 election.…
After a year-long trial of the controversial ShotSpotter program ended in December, many Durham residents assumed the gunshot detection technology was a thing of the…