Cary NC

Annual PeakFest Festival moves to Town Hall Campus; 100+ vendors, two stages of live entertainment and 45,000 attendees expected

Lifetime Living plans to break ground soon on a luxury fitness club and residential tower in Raleigh. The Triangle Business Journal reports that Dewitt Carolinas’ Exchange Raleigh will be the site of an 18-story mixed-use building at 1110 Oculus Drive, with residential units on floors four and above and amenities on levels one through four, including a pool deck on the fourth...

The Town of Chapel Hill has named Alicia Arnold as its next Director of Housing & Community Development. Arnold’s first day on the job will be June 8. Arnold has spent the last 12 years working in the Wake County government, where she currently serves as the county’s Deputy Director of Housing Affordability and Community Revitalization. Chapel Hill Town Manager Ted Voorhees said Arnold’s work...

Two concentrated weekend traffic crackdowns in Raleigh ended with a long list of tickets and handcuffs, as police pulled dozens of drivers off the road and tallied 60 speeding citations along with 16 arrests for driving while impaired. The operations focused on the I‑440 Beltline and several busy corridors downtown and in southeast Raleigh.

NORTH CAROLINA — A low-pressure system tracking along the coast will push widespread rain inland across North Carolina on Saturday, with the heaviest and most persistent rainfall targeting Central and Eastern NC through mid to late afternoon. Temperatures will run noticeably cooler statewide, settling into the 50s and 60s for most areas. While the rain is welcome, it will not be enough to end...

Forsyth County teachers, staff and community members piled onto buses early Friday morning to head to Raleigh for the May 1st Kids Over Corporations protest. Thousands of school workers across the state will be gathering at Halifax Mall, urging legislators to make a greater investment in public education. WFDD Education Reporter Amy Diaz talked to some of the rallygoers on the bus about what...

Flags will be flown at half-staff this coming week to honor North Carolina firefighters who died in the line of duty. Federal law requires flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Day, which is Sunday, May 3. All United States and state flags at state facilities will be at half staff from sunrise to sunset on...

A Cary resident turned a quick stop into a serious windfall after scratching off a $100,000 top prize on a $30 ticket, ultimately pocketing $72,018 after state and federal withholdings. The lucky slip came from the $100,000 Cash Payday instant game that debuted this spring, and the winner later headed to the lottery’s Raleigh offices to make it all official.

Downtown Raleigh’s longtime 42nd Street Oyster Bar, once a raucous late-night staple, still sits dark more than a year after it closed. The dining room is empty, the bar is quiet, and a storefront that used to hum with nightly crowds has gone still. For regulars who once packed the place, the silence feels like a small-city loss.

NORTH CAROLINA — An overturned septic truck has shut down an entrance ramp to Interstate 40 from Interstate 540 on Friday afternoon, causing disruptions for drivers near Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Authorities said the truck overturned on the I-40 on-ramp, spilling the contents of its tank onto the roadway. The incident prompted officials to close Exit […] The post Part of I-40 in...