Neighbor Coverage

Inspiring: Teenagers helping provide for neighbors during tough times
A group of high school students is helping provide their neighbors with basic necessities during especially tough times.

Online groups helping connect neighbors
'Buy Nothing' groups help neighbors share items or ask for items they need.

Buy Nothing groups give new life to unwanted items in your life
The Buy Nothing Project is active in over 25 countries across the world. The rules for the groups are simple: You can post anything you want to give away, lend or share or ask for anything you'd like to receive for free or borrow.

Holly Springs neighbors stay friendly despite political differences
Two neighbors in Holly Springs have managed to remain civil and friendly despite their very outward support for candidates from opposing parties.

Two neighbors remain friendly despite political differences
Two neighbors in Holly Springs have their yards decked out with political signs, but their preferred candidates are on opposite sides. They remain friendly anyway.

Something invisible silenced Daddy D, the ice cream man
For years, people in the neighborhood knew him as Daddy D, the ice cream man. Dwight Bell brought smiles to children around the Sandhills for years. He died of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

COVID-19 claims life of ice cream man
For years, people in the neighborhood knew him as Daddy D, the ice cream man. Dwight Bell brought smiles to children around the Sandhills for years. He died of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

'She was like Wonder Woman:' Neighbor saves choking neighbor
Security camera footage shows a Florida man, choking on steak and unable to breathe, rescued after ringing his neighbor's doorbell in a desperate plea for help.

Pandemic changing our lives as we wait for the 'after'
There is nothing like sickness and death to help frame what is a worthwhile way to spend a day, or even a life.

What can we learn, how might we grow?
Abigail Adams said to her son 242 years ago, "It is not in the still calm of life... that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues."

Oakwood neighborhood greeting each other from their porches during virus outbreak
Oakwood neighbors came outside, each on our own porch, balcony or front yard to sing, wave and say hello to neighbors and spread some cheer during the coronavirus outbreak during a quick event Saturday.

What can happen when neighbors come together; the Oakwood Candlelight Tour
While the majority of people want to "age in place," much fewer have family nearby and the ties to neighbors and religious communities, that made that possible. Oakwood may be a model to look to.

Report: Top ways you may be annoying your neighbor
Most of us have had an annoying neighbor at some point. Now a new report lists the top things you may be doing that are annoying your neighbor.

Call before you dig to prevent potential problems
Are you doing work around your house that is putting you or your neighbors at risk? WRAL's Mark Boyle said you should call 811 before you decide to dig.

Durham neighborhood asked for help to stem violence, crime
Residents of a neighborhood east of downtown Durham as asking for help to stem crime in their area.

Man protests neighbor's complaint with naked mannequins
A California man is turning heads after complaints from a neighbor forced him to lower the fence around his Santa Rosa home.

Man puts naked mannequins in front yard to protest fence
A California man is turning heads after complaints from a neighbor forced him to lower the fence around his Santa Rosa home.

Cup o' Joe: The ultimate bad neighbor move
Don't let your neighbor play this game! It's probably against the rules.

How are you? Artists install 'welcome fence' in front yard
A pair of artists installed a different kind of fence in the front yard of their Tacoma, Washington home.