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San Francisco residents will see a more natural look in local parks this spring. The "Low-Mow Spring" initiative, announced by the City of Raleigh, aims to support local pollinator populations by reducing mowing in select areas. Raleigh is reducing its spring mowing schedule in select parks and preserves to support...

Durham police report that a man was found with gunshot wounds Thursday afternoon in the 2500 block of South Roxboro Street and later died at a hospital. The incident turned a nearby housing complex into an active crime scene. Officers responded just after 3 p.m., and investigators remained on site into the evening....

THURSDAY, Feb. 12, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Health officials in North Carolina are warning residents about possible measles exposure after infected people visited stores, gyms and restaurants in and around the state capital over the past week. The exposures were reported in Wake, Durham and Johnston counties, as the...

Everything is poetry to Giorgios Bakatsias, the busiest restaurateur in the Triangle — even a restaurant closing. The owner of Giorgios Epicurean Market announced this week that the popular all-day foodie destination would temporarily close for a bit of a transformation. In other words, Bakatsias is planting seeds...

A Siler City teacher was charged Friday with 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation announced. SBI agents, with help from the Carrboro Police Department, arrested Christopher James Rex, 40, at his Carrboro home, the SBI said in a news release. Rex works at ONE Academy, a...

What started as a cheerful Mother’s Day visit to the Wake County Animal Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, quickly turned traumatic. Lauren Seagroves brought her 8-year-old daughter to the shelter on May 12, 2025, hoping to find a shelter dog to adopt. Instead, both ended up in the emergency room after a dog they...

The judge rejected arguments that Austin David Thompson deserved the chance for release decades from now.

Wake Stone, now part of Vulcan Materials, is intensifying its legal battle to keep its quarry near William B. Umstead State Park operational beyond 2031, after a Wake County judge reinstated a 50-year “sunset” clause requiring closure by that date. The company has filed to intervene in a conservation coalition’s...

I never expected to spend an entire afternoon wandering through aisles of fabric, but that’s exactly what happened when I first walked into Cary Quilting Company at 935 N Harrison Ave, Cary, North Carolina. The moment I stepped inside, I understood why quilters drive from Ohio and beyond to visit this remarkable shop.

As the sentencing hearing continues in the Hedingham neighborhood mass-shooting case in Raleigh, the defense has pointed to a commonly prescribed acne medication, minocycline , as a possible factor in confessed shooter Austin Thompson’s behavior. In court filings and testimony, attorneys have suggested that...