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With a Republican majority in the North Carolina General Assembly for the first time in more than a century, Democratic legislators of Durham County may have to consider altering their goals for...
Governor Bev Perdue unveiled a budget proposal Thursday that would cleave $3.2 billion from state spending over the next two years, slashing 10,000 state jobs but protecting education funding.
Governor Bev Perdue has had a rough six months.
The Ronald McDonald House of Durham on campus plans to “supersize” itself.
Three years after two offenders on probation were implicated in the deaths of Duke’s Abhijit Mahato and UNC’s Eve Carson, North Carolina has striven to revamp its probations enforcement system,...
Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue gave the Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature a glimpse of her budget proposal Monday in her State of the State address.
Washington Post correspondent and Duke alumnus Craig Whitlock is trying to write a story—a story with no sequence of events, no confirmed setting and no semblance of certainty. And he is doing so...
Since she began looking for work in January 2010, Durham resident Alexandria Dandridge has only been offered one interview.
Durham is about “creating connections” in 2011, Mayor Bill Bell said Monday night.
In what was the first meeting of its kind in over 20 years, the Durham County Board of Commissioners convened in special session Monday and Tuesday to discuss the next phase of Durham County’s...
It’s official: The 2012 Democratic National Convention will be held in Charlotte, N.C.
After a significant loss of outside funding, Duke has less money and fewer people dedicated to engaging the Durham community.
For North Carolina residents, the ability to smoke “legal marijuana”—a substance known as K2—and similar substances may soon come to an end.
The pairing of several Democrats and Republicans at Tuesday’s State of the Union address provided a visual representation of President Barack Obama’s high hopes for bipartisanship.
Eric Becoats is starting off his second semester with a new plan and a lot of buzz.
Nearly a year after the officer-involved fatal shooting outside of Duke Hospital, the Durham County district attorney has announced that the actions of the involved Duke policemen were authorized.
In an astounding act of bipartisanship, students of all political affiliations tolerated the questions of The Chronicle’s Matt Barnett.
President Barack Obama began his address to the American people Tuesday night with an eye on progress.
Gov. Bev Purdue announced Thursday in Durham that she hopes to keep North Carolina’s Alcohol Beverage Control system as it is now, despite discussions of privatization.
Ten projects designed by students from both UNC and Duke have each been awarded a $5,000 grant as part of the inaugural Kenan-Biddle Partnership class, part of an effort to increase collaboration...