2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1598+ words) Alamance-Burlington school board members are considering launching a state-funded Artificial Intelligence school safety pilot program that had been rejected by another school system over concerns about mass surveillance and privacy rights. The AI surveillance system would be funded by a…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (145+ words) alamancenews.com 114 West Elm Street Burlington woman arrested for 2nd degree murder after early morning shooting outside convenience store A woman from Burlington has been charged with second-degree murder after she allegedly gunned down a 26-year-old man outside an area business…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (585+ words) Two Swepsonville residents have filed a lawsuit in Alamance County superior court against Alamance County, two municipalities, and six private companies, seeking potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for allegedly disposing of known contaminants that subsequently leached into…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (384+ words) Roads at railroad crossings in Burlington, Elon, Gibsonville, and Graham will close to all vehicle traffic starting today (Monday, August 24), to install new railroad tracks along the North Carolina Railroad corridor. This is in addition to previously-announced closures announced in…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (696+ words) Alamance County’s leaders have decided to give themselves a year-long breather from data center proposals in order to draft a set of regulations for these high-tech leviathans outside the county’s cities and towns. The county’s board of commissioners voted 5-to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (460+ words) Burlington city council has tapped attorney Christina Benson for one of the city’s two seats on the appointed board that oversees the state-owned liquor stores in most of Alamance County. The council appointed Benson on Tuesday to take over a…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (143+ words) After hearing from more than three dozen residents – most opposed to allowing data centers in the county and many asking for a two-year moratorium on such facilities – Alamance County’s commissioners unanimously adopted instead a one-year moratorium. The commissioners want to…...