Holden, 70, has been attending the church since he was a child. It’s where he met his wife, Karen, and where he’s felt a sense of community. But Merry Oaks isn’t the same place as it was when he ...

A neighborhood in the southwest part of the county spent most of October and December without internet or landline phone service, owing to back-to-back, weeks-long broadband outages. Those outages ...

PITTSBORO — On a bright October morning, Thava Mahadevan heads down a gravel pathway to a clearing surrounded by orange construction tape and a circle of trees just beginning to fade in color. At the ...

PITTSBORO ­— When the town’s board of commissioners voted to sue PFAS manufacturers during their Jan. 23 meeting, it marked the first time in North Carolina history a municipal government sued ...

PITTSBORO — In a fiery school board meeting, eight community members spoke out after they claimed a student at Bonlee School was bullied for her faith. More than 70 people came to the meeting at ...

GREENSBORO — The executive director of the Chatham County Housing Authority was arrested Friday as part of a wide-ranging federal investigation into more than $200,000 in kickbacks and payoffs from ...

SILER CITY — Abdul Chaudhry likes to take care of his people. He’ll tell you as much on a walk-through of his Siler City business, Chaudhry Halal Meats, pointing to the several relatives he employs or ...

SILER CITY — A big home, 10 acres of land and a space to call their own. The Muehlbachs thought their investment in the home off of Pleasant Hill Church Road was their own slice of the American dream.

A stone face pokes out from where it is carved into a rock in the front of the home formerly known as Aunt Bee’s house in SIler City. New owner Kathy Nail, who moved from California, is currently ...

Seaforth High School junior Kendall Anderson (picture attached, photo courtesy Rachel Horowitz, Seaforth High), earned a perfect score on her AP United States Government and Politics exam. She was one ...

SILER CITY — It’s that time of year: budget time. Siler City staff presented its annual budget proposal before the board of commissioners last week. Town Manager Hank Raper, Budget Manager Jenifer ...

Editor’s note: Ben Rappaport has just returned from a week in Vietnam touring VinFast’s manufacturing facilities and meeting with company officials. It was part of a VinFast-paid media tour in advance ...