Durham Police are monitoring traffic conditions and are regularly updating a spreadsheet indicating road closures, blockages and traffic light outages as a result of Tropical…
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Collection of garbage, recycling, yard waste and bulky items scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 8 has been suspended due to the impacts of Tropical Storm Debby.…
When Nicole Elliott met Shajuan Ervin in the spring of 2017, she liked him. Ervin, her daughter Kira’s boyfriend, was a senior at Elizabeth City…
Chris Perelstein was working in the living room of his Roxboro Street apartment in early November when a cacophony of noises — squealing tires, a honking…
In a contentious vote Monday night, the City Council voted against re-implementing ShotSpotter in Durham. ShotSpotter, which uses acoustic sensors to detect gunshots and notify…
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…
Homicides, rape incident reports, and property crime climbed in the first quarter of 2023, Durham’s Police Chief told the City Council on Thursday. Homicides spiked…
Like many elementary school libraries, R.N. Harris’ multi-media center is decorated with stuffed animals, vocabulary word posters, and hundreds of picture books. On Monday, this…
Mayor Elaine O’Neal presented a vibrant snapshot of the Bull City in her “State of the City” address Monday, even while lamenting the city’s wave…
At 6 p.m. on March 20, about 30 cyclists gathered near the Shell station at the intersection of West Main, West Morgan, and Watts streets.…