Orange County

Burmese make up the largest refugee population in North Carolina and nationally.

One of the last remaining green spaces in Carrboro—a 10 1/2-acre communal space for public art, sustainability projects, an outdoor movie theater and a garden—may be disappearing.

Marlette had an eye for the brass ring and the ability to shrug off critics.

Over objections from employees at Weaver Street Market, the cooperative grocery's board of directors voted July 9 to move the food production facility from Carrboro to a new Hillsborough location.

To its patrons and vendors, who are predominantly Hispanic, the Buckhorn Flea Market in Efland provides an opportunity to buy and sell goods and groceries from handmade cowboy boots to homegrown tomatoes.

Perhaps most crucial about the story of John G. McCormick, lawyer, husband, father, friend, and attorney for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system, is that it was entirely preventable.

What Alane Koki didn't list in her application to become a member of an Orange County citizens' committee studying whether the county should limit the practice of tethering dogs on chains or ropes was her long history of breeding pit bulls in other states and her association with local kennel owner Tom Garner, a nationally known breeder of pit bulls and a convicted dog fighter.