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A recent study from housing consultants in Chapel Hill showed the town needs to build approximately 485 homes every year to keep up with rising demand in the area. Local housing experts say the combination of an expensive housing market and rapid development in town is making that goal harder to achieve.

Housing consultants say the main way Chapel Hill needs to grow is by filling in the “missing middle,” through building middle income housing like townhomes, condos and duplexes. 97.9 The Hill r

With the recent appointment of astrophysicist Chris Clemens as UNC’s next provost and several faculty leaving the university, some faculty members say there is a concerning trend of political influence at Carolina.

Associate UNC history professor William Sturkey recently spoke during 97.9 The Hill’s For ‘Em On The Hill about the culture of higher education. He said he has seen concerning trends of political pressure at the university.

“All of the political interference in the last few years ha

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story indicated Jeanne Wakefield was the executive director of the Victory Village daycare center during the November 2021 allegations that led to UNC contracting with Bright Horizons. This is not true. There was a different executive director of Victory Village between Wakefield and Buschow. Wakefield’s last day as director of the center was July 30, 2021.

The Victory Village daycare has operated as a non-profit early education center for UNC families

Last night Riza Jenkins, Mike Sharp and George Griffin got elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education. They spent much of the campaign working together and that didn’t change on election night.

All three candidates gathered at Riza Jenkins’ house to celebrate their victory.

Riza Jenkins returned to her home shortly after polls closed at 7:30 p.m. She greeted voters at the polls since 6:30 a.m. but the chaos didn’t stop once she reached the driveway.

Her three children

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated from its initial edition to include comments from an Acme spokesperson about the status of the strike. Previous updates included providing further demands of strike organizers, giving a more detailed timeline of events surrounding sexual misconduct allegations and more accurately reflecting the length of the strike.

The Acme Food & Beverage Company in Carrboro recently closed to dine-in customers. Now, its workers have publicly shared they are on str

Sunday marked 51 years since the tragic murder of James Cates, a Black man who was stabbed at just 22 years old in the middle of UNC’s campus.

Last week, community organizers and members of the Cates family reflected on his life and the lessons learned from the institutional failures that led to his death.

On the cold and rainy night of November 21, 1970, James Lewis Cates Jr. was invited to an all-night dance in the Carolina Student Union with the aim of improving race relations. The student