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Walter Eugene "Gene" Johnston III, a former Greensboro businessman who served one term in Congress representing the area in the early 1980s, has died.

More nighttime lane closures are coming for Business 40 in the area near the Peters Creek Parkway interchange. Contractors need to drill into the ground for soil testing as part of the Business 40 improvement project, state officials said.

Work continued Wednesday at UNC-Greensboro to raze the McIver Building, a classroom building that opened in 1960. The university is tearing down McIver to make way for a new home for its nursing school. The $105 million, five-story building also…

THOMASVILLE — A Silver Alert has been issued for a missing Thomasville man.

The end of the formal flu season March 31 appears to have come with a significant decrease in related deaths, state health officials reported Thursday.

The Urban League of Winston-Salem will present the "Chicago Freedom Movement Photo Exhibit" to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — With thoughts on the past and eyes to the future, thousands marched and sang civil rights songs Wednesday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the “apostle of nonviolence” silenced by an assassin 50 years ago.

Religious leaders, workers and labor organizers called for a $15 minimum hourly wage for employees of the city Winston-Salem at a rally Wednesday evening in Winston Square Park, drawing about 100 people to the sunny but cool and breezy downtown…

Winston-Salem State University’s work in the health sciences and the ways in which it connects to the surrounding community stood out for UNC system President Margaret Spellings and the newest members of the UNC Board of Governors as they toured…

The Winston-Salem Fire Department is at the scene of a gas leak at Cherry Street and Indiana Avenue.