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At precisely 1:32 p.m. on March 20, Raleigh artist Lillian Jones will release a map leading to a hidden treasure, and a certain group of ...

The city's Planning Commission is changing Raleigh's rezoning process for "conditional use" projects, a popular type of development that ...

Can you think of any uglier entrance to downtown Raleigh than the heavily traveled thoroughfare that should be our inviting foyer, Capita...

City planners and some property owners envision a redeveloped Capital Boulevard so improved that no one can tell where downtown Raleigh e...

The state broke ground last week on an $8.6 million project to widen 2.3 miles of U.S. 401 two miles south of Rolesville. The N.C.

Matthew Eisley's March 10 editor's column, "Don't assume racism," hit all the nails squarely on the head.

Ron Margiotta is finding out the hard way that every word he says in public will be closely scrutinized now that he's chairman of Wake Co...

I am a stay-at-home mother of two children, one of whom is in Wakefield Elementary School, and the other of whom will enter in 2012.

We are writing in response to the Wake County Board of Education's recent decision to re-convert Leesville Road Elementary School and Lee...

Wake County families will have to wait until next month to learn whether they've been accepted into a magnet school or a school that runs...

Raleigh's Turtles For Tots program is scheduled for 10:15 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Laurel Hills Community Center. The $3 program is fo...

At Big Guy's school, students choose their electives while parents do the enrolling. And it's first come, first serve.

Nearly every department of Wake County government is shedding staff and bracing for cuts to erase a $6.6 million deficit and a projected ...

Police arrested three young men and are searching for two other suspects in connection with the armed robbery of a pizza delivery man at ...

Authorities are looking for two men who they say robbed a patron March 6 at a Raleigh Econolodge hotel.

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I thought Matthew Eisley's March 10 editor's column, "Don't assume racism," was apologist in tone and substance and disregarded the lesso...

A new director has been named to run the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at N.C. State University.

Two local universities are teaming up to offer a two-for-one special.

You probably don't need a meteorologist to tell you this, but it was an unusually cold and snowy winter.

In North Raleigh, four friends are embarking on a venture to help you save on groceries.

Matthew Eisley's March 10 editor's column, "Don't assume racism," makes the mistake of assuming that racism must be conscious and deliber...

Carolina fans may soon be seeing red.

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Wake County school board members ignored open-meeting requirements in state law when they voted behind closed doors to place Superintende...

In a week when Raleigh shook with news of a high-profile slaying, bare-knuckle school board politics and the annual frenzy of ACC basketb...

A Charlotte developer who has spent the past three years assembling property at the edge of downtown Raleigh is moving ahead with plans t...

On the Ravenscroft School campus, Band Director Bill Pendergrass and athlete-musician Will Byrd are getting their heads rubbed a lot. Fol...

Thomas H. Briggs' modest general store withstood the turmoil of the Great Depression, adapted to an evolving hardware industry and surviv...

Rapidly growing northeast Raleigh might soon get some much-needed recreational space.