Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School for the first time sent three teams to the N.C. Regional Future City Competition on Jan. 27 at the McKimmon Center at N.C. State University.

About 200 middle school students from across the state presented their projects. N.C. State engineering…

Lenette Britt, author of “Ma B’s Lesson on Black History,” will be the focus of two local events.

She will be at a book signing at noon on Sunday at Word Tabernacle Church and is scheduled to read at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Braswell Memorial Library.

Britt said she grew up…

Four local high school seniors recently represented Nash County at the Distinguished Young Women of North Carolina program in Greensboro.

During the week leading up to the program finals, they gained invaluable interview and public speaking skills. Distinguished Young Women is a…

DURHAM — With 15:55 left in the game on Saturday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke’s Zion Williamson let a 3-pointer fly from the right wing. It clanged left and into the hands of an N.C. State defender.

With 14:57 left in the game, on the next possession, R.J. Barrett, who finished…

The Northern Nash boys’ basketball team on Friday completed its third consecutive 10-0 record in Big East Conference play. And while each of the past three undefeated conference runs featured dominant stretches from talented Knights teams, coach Henry Drake noticed an edge this season that…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Eighth-ranked North Carolina responded to its first loss in a month by pouncing on an overmatched opponent and rolling to its biggest margin of victory ever in an Atlantic Coast Conference road game.

Cameron Johnson scored 27 points and fueled the Tar Heels’ game-…