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Pitt County Schools is among about 15% of districts across the state closing Friday as thousands of educators are scheduled to march in Raleigh to demand more funding for public schools. The county’s Board of Education on Monday approved an optional teacher workday after learning of some 500 staff absences planned for the end of the week. Neighboring Edgecombe County Schools followed suit on...

Searching for mom-and-pop diners in North Carolina with the best home cooking around?. These 7 wonderful spots offer tasty food and genuine Southern hospitality!. 1. Watkins Grill (Raleigh) Watkins Grill has been making people happy in Raleigh since 1947. That’s a whole lot of years getting recipes just right.

Raleigh’s Red Hat Amphitheater is officially in the spotlight as it gets ready to move across the street and level up. In a new episode of the city’s “Your City, Answered” series, Kerry Painter, executive director of the Raleigh Convention and Performing Arts Complex, walks through how the long-planned relocation and rebuild is supposed to look, feel and function. The timing is not...

An 18-year-old student at Enloe Magnet High School in Raleigh was arrested this week after a reported secret peeping incident on campus, a case that has triggered both a police investigation and an internal review by school administrators. What happened at Enloe. Raleigh police said officers were called to the...

A Raleigh-area town has been crowned North Carolina’s safest city , recent rankings show. Home to more than 11,850 residents and counting, Rolesville took the No. 1 spot in SafeWise’s 2026 Safest Cities report despite a year-over-year rise in violent crime and property crime rates. The town reported 0.3 violent crimes per 1,000 people while its property crime rate stood at 4.5...

GARNER, N.C. – The Garner Town Council at its April meeting welcomed Lewis Hurd as Garner’s new housing and community development specialist in the Strategic Initiatives Department. Mr. Hurd comes to the Town of Garner with over three decades of experience in the fields of banking, housing and...

A Pinehurst man is sitting in the Wake County jail after N.C. State University police say he posted a threat of mass violence on social media tied to campus, prompting a fast arrest Monday night on university property. According to The News & Observer, the suspect is 24-year-old Luke Archer...

A former Manhattan CBD store owner is facing federal drug distribution charges. Law enforcement officers arrested Donald Ince, 47, on a U.S. Marshals Service warrant last July for charges in Wake County, North Carolina. Ince is the former owner of American Shaman in Manhattan. Online records for North Carolina’s federal...

A Monday evening near Durham’s American Tobacco Trail turned deadly when officers found a 44-year-old man critically injured in the 3000 block of Fayetteville Street. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he later died, and police have now opened a homicide investigation. On Tuesday, Durham police identified...

Much of North Carolina, including the Triangle, could see severe storms headed into the afternoon and evening on Wednesday, April 29. But if depends on if today’s clouds can scoot out of the way. “We are not sure that we are definitely going to have thunderstorms with the cold front that’s coming through itself,” said Tom Green, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service...