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The Winston-Salem Journal received 40 awards during the annual convention of the N.C. Press Association held virtually Friday. The number of awards for the period of Oct. 1, 2019, to Sept. 30, 2020, continues a string of strong performances for the newspaper. For the 2020 News, Editorial and Photojournalism Contest, the Journal received 11 first-place awards including public service, 13 second-place awards and 16 third-place awards. Ten current and five former staff members received awards, and the Journal earned 13 full-staff recognitions. The Journal competes with the state’s major met...

The private college said it will be the nation's only liberal arts college focused on preparing women for leadership roles in health-related fields.

Forsyth County reported its first case of U.K. variant of COVID-19 on Wednesday.  The infected person is in isolation and contact tracing is being tone to identify others who may have been exposed to the disease, the Forsyth County Department of Public Health said.  This variant has been found to be more contagious, though early research found that it has no impact on the severity of the disease or the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine. “There have been 40 cases of this variant in North Carolina, so we knew that Forsyth would eventually have its first case," said Joshua Swift, ...

The literal bird’s-eye view, supplied in this case by a high-res drone, shows the final resting place in the long, long life of a common American hackberry tree — which,

Tricia McManus, who has guided Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools through a cautious but deliberate reopening process, has been named the new superintendent of the school district.