Tar Heel News

Tar Heel taxpayers should resist taking comfort in the notion that their lawmakers are back in Raleigh discussing a proposed overhaul of the state's tax system.

The Tar Heel defense clamped down on the Blue Devil offense and held them to 125 yards for the game.

Tar Heel Fire Department and Tar Heel Rescue with Tobermory Fire Department respond to the crash on N.C. 20.

The nomination of two North Carolina judges to the nation's second-highest court could further a leftward push by President Barack Obama in shaping the federal judicial system.

As the old saying goes, practice makes perfect. Just ask Thomas and Kayla Lindsay, a father and daughter barbecue cooking team.

A UNC student is recovering after being hit by a falling tree. It fell near the corner of McCauley and South Columbia.

The Halloween festivities on Franklin Street in downtown Chapel Hill sadly did not pass without incident, as there was an assault charge in connection with a stabbing.

Every week, UNC freshman Zealan Hoover stares at his computer for one of his Spanish 101 sections.

Dannellia Gladden-Green, the granddaughter of Amanda Strickland of Wagram, was the guest speaker at NAACP Annual Freedom Fund Banquet.

From O . Henry to Lilian Jackson Braun, North Carolina has nurtured some of the world's best-known mystery writers.

You've seen on television the shouting and angry protesting at town hall meetings across America.

A combination of State Fair traffic, fall break traffic and rush hour traffic in addition to game day traffic could lead to some major delays on Thursday.

On the eve of Carolina's first-ever Thursday night home football game, a once-familiar face appeared for the first time in many years.

Gen. George C. Marshall spent happy years in Pinehurst after a career that helped shape the postwar world October 21, 2009 4:47 PM White House security was lax in 1901 when a visiting fourth-year cadet at Virginia Military Institute walked past several guards to come face-to-face with President William McKinley.

Early voters have flocked in to the election boards in New Hanover and Brunswick counties since the start of one-stop voting last week, but other counties are seeing a slow start.

Roy Williams has given Carolina basketball fans a million reasons to smile. At the annual Fast Break Against Cancer fundraiser hosted by Williams, it was announced that he has also helped raise over a million dollars for the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Billed as a harmless way to pump up education revenue without raising taxes, the empathetically named North Carolina Education Lottery was created to compete with surrounding state lotteries, where Tar Heels often dropped thousands of dollars.

The Senior Tar Heel Legislature concluded its last annual meeting on Oct. 7. Elections were held and new officers were sworn in.

Taxpayers in the Tar Heel state are suing North Carolina's governor, Commerce Department, and Johnson & Wales over what they describe as "multiple pieces of legislation" adopted by the state's General Assembly solely for the purpose of luring the renowned culinary school from its campuses in Charleston and Norfolk, Va.

Alcohol-related arrests are up involving University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students.