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The number of flu-related deaths continued to rise — as expected — following the official March 31 ending of the 2017-18 season.

Police said Thursday that the death of a woman on Monday is being investigated as suspicious, but may not be a homicide.

Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools is seeking public comment on a draft policy that allows a four-year contract for teachers, an issue tied to a long battle between the N.C. Association of Educators and the Republican-led General Assembly over teacher job…

Fourteenth Street Elementary School Alumni: 6 p.m. today at 14th Street Recreation Center, 2020 E. 14th St. This is a planning meeting for the third annual reunion. Everyone who attended 14th Street School is invited. For more information, call Alfred…

When Valorene Young sees students in her elementary school classroom who don’t have the supplies they need for the day, she buys them with her own money to make sure all her students have equal resources to succeed.

An autopsy showed that Bill Bloxham, a local homeless man, died from complications of heart disease last October and not from the injuries he suffered when he was beaten by five teenagers in January 2017.

The General Assembly likely will consider a proposed School of Chiropractic Medicine at Winston-Salem State University when members reconvene next month, a local legislator says. If approved, it would be first publicly funded chiropractic program in the United States.

GREENSBORO — A man arrested in the case of a missing Guilford County girl who was found safe Tuesday faces a new charge.

Long Branch Trail formally opened in the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter this morning with balloons, speeches, a live band and food trucks, along with cyclists cheering the chance to ride from downtown to Salem Lake and back.

Incident happened Wednesday morning.