U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy received the inaugural Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law at a ceremony at the Washington Duke Thursday.
The toll from Durham’s explosion Wednesday continues to increase.
The Durham Police Department announced that the owner of Kaffeinate coffee shop, 61-year-old Kong Lee, died in the explosion that destroyed his coffee shop Wednesday morning.
Eight Duke employees were injured in an explosion Wednesday morning in downtown Durham, which killed one person and injured more than a dozen.
A explosion occurred in downtown Durham at 115 North Duke St. at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday.
“Norms have been shattered one after another, in ways that I think are deeply damaging to our democracy,” he said. “The thing that troubles me the most is that… this president doesn’t either understand or respect our democracy in the way that we understand it. To considerably hold himself above the law cuts against the absolute tenant of our society.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order March 21 threatening to withhold federal research grant money from colleges failing to protect freedom of speech.
President Donald Trump's budget proposal for 2020 would cut funding for higher education and research, in favor of increasing funding for national security and defense programs.
A Confederate monument in Durham was vandalized for at least the second time in four years.
Steve Schewel will run for a second term as Durham's mayor.
According to the News and Observer, Hayes' attorney said that he denies the allegations.
A monument to slaves and African American workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was vandalized Sunday with urine and racist language.
Senator Richard Burr (R–NC) sat down with The Chronicle, Sanford Journal and later various reporters to discuss his experience in Congress, and specifically his involvement in the Russian investigation as chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
The NC State Board of Elections approved 72 schools to use school-provided IDs as voter IDs in accordance with the new Voter ID law, out of the 81 colleges and universities that applied by the March 15 deadline.
Duke People’s State of the University held a rally Friday to protest Duke's decision to not sign the light rail cooperation agreement.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California and star of the "Terminator" franchise, spoke in front of the Supreme Court Tuesday before oral arguments for the North Carolina gerrymandering case Rucho v. Common Cause.
After a unanimous vote, GoTriangle will stop pursuing the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit Project.
Three years ago, the Supreme Court upheld a ruling that forced North Carolina to redraw congressional districts to eliminate racial gerrymandering. Now, gerrymandering in North Carolina has made its way back to the Supreme Court.
After Duke declined to sign a cooperative agreement with GoTriangle for the light rail project, calls came from local officials and a congressman "to use all options available to move this project forward."
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument of a North Carolina partisan gerrymandering case Tuesday.
