Category : National News

Falling fuel prices result in lower customer rates Annual bills for typical residential customer are $235 below national average CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Starting Dec. 1, rates for Duke Energy Progress residential customers in North Carolina fell by 4.5% as part...

A GDN ExclusiveBy Tracey Morrison   FAYETTEVILLE, NC – Michele Dillon, a Fayetteville native, embodies the saying, ‘It takes a village to raise a child.’ Her unwavering dedication to serving youth demonstrated through her tenure of over ten years with...

By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com DURHAM – Brian Curry had some familiarity with the family tree in the souvenir program commemorating the 110 enslaved persons who departed on Nov. 1, 1844, on the Stagville Trek to Greensboro, Alabama. “You tried to...

By Mia Khatib Correspondent RALEIGH – Several years ago, Raleigh Area Land Trust envisioned having 100 properties online in five years. Its current projects will put it at about 30 homes by 2026, but executive director Kevin Campbell said they...

By Freda Freeman Correspondent Facing daunting statistics, Black women often feel afraid, overwhelmed, helpless and hopeless when diagnosed with breast cancer. Advocates are coming along to walk with these women and support them on their journey. During October – Breast...

By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com DURHAM – History could not be silenced Wednesday, even when the sound system plug was pulled by a disgruntled tenant, at the groundbreaking for the Lofts at Southside – Phases III and IV. “We knew where...

More than 200 Duke Energy employees, nonprofit partners and other volunteers joined our “Rally for Relief” event in Raleigh to benefit western North Carolina. We packed 1,000 American Red Cross North Carolina emergency kits, 50,000 diapers in partnership with Diaper...

By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com RALEIGH – Two resignations from Saint Augustine’s Board of Trustees were part of the fallout from an Oct. 7-9 visit by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, The Triangle Tribune has learned....

By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com DURHAM – For James Montague and F7 International Development, the biggest opportunity is yet to come. Montague, who has planned and implemented mixed projects throughout the Triangle, has the opportunity to develop five acres at 505...

By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com DURHAM – Duke University now is home to another “From Slavery to Freedom” legacy. The groundbreaking book authored by the late, legendary Duke historian and professor John Hope Franklin (with his own named campus center) is...