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Airports, banks and several government buildings closed across North Carolina as the state tried to cope with the aftereffects of apparent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center complex and the Pentagon.
The Durham Board of County Commissioners became the second local legislative body to request authority to increase the hotel occupancy tax by 1 percent Monday night, agreeing in spirit with a proposal from the City of Durham.
Seeking the ability to fund a possible theater downtown, the Durham City Council voted Tuesday night to ask the state Legislature for the authority to raise the hotel occupancy tax.
The state House of Representatives gave final approval Thursday to a $391 million tax package, but the measure may have a hard time winning passage in the Senate--where leaders favor a steeper sales tax hike.
Durham Regional Hospital may still be losing money, but its officers nevertheless had a reason for optimism Wednesday: Last year's losses were nearly $2 million less than they had expected.
Opening up the field for one of North Carolina's seats in the U.S. Senate, Jesse Helms announced Wednesday that he would not seek re-election to a sixth consecutive term next year.
The Durham City Council approved a $251 million budget for next year by the slightest of margins early Tuesday, raising the effective property tax rate by about 3.3 percent.
The Durham County Board of Commissioners dissolved the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in a 3-2 vote Monday night, stressing that infighting has rendered the group ineffective.
Eastern Durham came a step closer to having a new large-scale housing development Monday night, as a divided Durham City Council approved the rezoning of 678 acres for the project despite significant opposition from nearby residents.
Durham's new city manager arrived Monday to start work--and plunged right into her new job with a 15-hour day that culminated in a five-hour meeting of the Durham City Council.
Mainly to cope with the cost of increased payments for voter-approved debt, the Durham city manager proposed a 2001-2002 budget that would raise taxes by just under 5 percent.
A $20.8 million fund set up by the City of Durham to pay for insurance claims has run dry six years ahead of schedule, and another $10.8 set aside for risk operations will not last until its projected 2003 date.
A community development group that had come under fire for inefficiency got a second chance from the Durham City Council last night, but the council made it clear that it wanted to see results from the group.
Effectively wrapping up its pursuit of a new city manager, the Durham City Council unanimously voted yesterday to accept the terms of a deal with Marcia Conner, current assistant city manager of Austin, Texas.
After some debate and questions of parliamentary procedure last night, the Durham City Council postponed action on a proposal for a 2,500-home development in East Durham.
In response to concerns about a lack of minutes for its closed-session meetings, the Durham City Council Monday night revised the process of approving minutes for those meetings.
The Durham City Council discussed last night whether to transfer $198,000 in funding away from a community development corporation criticized for working too slowly and achieving too little.
In a five-hour meeting Monday night, the Durham City Council considered two development plans that opponents said would place too much stress on already-crowded schools.
Mayor Nick Tennyson threw his hat into the ring Thursday, joining community activist Steven Hopkins in the race for mayor of Durham.
The Durham City Council discussed how to revamp its street impact fees and decided on the structure of a citizens' committee to help redraw the city's ward lines at a meeting last night. During the nearly four-hour meeting, the council heard comments from about 20 citizens on the city's proposal to raise street impact fees, which are designed to charge new developments for the wear and tear that their tenants create on Durham roads.
