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The onslaught of snow and sub-freezing weather that has plagued the Triangle the past two weeks has been tough on just about everybody. But businesses that rely on customers coming…Click to Continue »

US Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, is moving to overturn a Federal Communications Commission decision that would lift restrictions on city-owned broadband Internet service, including the city of Wilson's service called…Click to Continue »

Both of North Carolina’s Republican senators on Thursday said they’d reject North Carolina native Loretta Lynch’s nomination as U.S. attorney general.Click to Continue »

Local civil-rights groups, including the NAACP, are supporting the Wake County school system's efforts to promote cultural proficiency, saying it will help avoid the problems of "negative stereotypical history and…Click to Continue »

Two weeks of winter weather has taxed Raleigh’s government and residents alike, as rounds of ice and snow have disrupted services, knocked trees onto the roads, disabled water mains and…Click to Continue »

A NC prisoner is suing the state prison system because it doesn’t allow atheists and humanists to gather in study sessions, as religious inmates are permitted to do.Click to Continue »

Acre by acre, and million by million, Wake County is sewing together a patchy greenbelt among the farmland and subdivisions east of Raleigh. After 15 years of purchasing and planning,Click to Continue »

As Triangle school districts braced for schools to remain closed Friday, some Wake County high school students lobbied for schools to reopen so they could participate in the North Carolina…Click to Continue »

Wake and Durham counties were the hardest hit by the storm, which dumped several waterlogged inches throughout the region and caused widespread blackouts.Click to Continue »

Republican state senators voiced concerns this week about a jobs incentive program that Gov. Pat McCrory wants to see significantly expanded within weeks.Click to Continue »