Skip parking and take Amtrak or a bus to the NC State Fair this...
From roller coasters to funnel cakes, the North Carolina State Fair is back in Raleigh this year, getting there is easier than ever thanks to special train and bus routes. The North Carolina State Fair returns to the capital city October 16-26 , bringing back all the rides, games, and deep-fried favorites fans love....
N.C. State Fair adding 88 new foods this year
Vendors at North Carolina’s State Fair are serving up 88 new recipes for this year’s fairgoers. These additions span sweet, spicy, savory and sour flavor palates, ranging from chocolate-covered potato chip caramel apples to homestyle ranch deep-fried cheese curds. The fair is set to run in Raleigh daily...
Need a knee? Growing Triangle transplant maker blazes 3D-printed joints in RTP
The tour began with a hairy leg prised open along the shinbone. A woman steadied this limb on a surgical table as a man repeatedly clanked a medical mallet near its foot. Neither were doctors; they were a sales manager and sales rep trainee inserting a titanium tibial transplant into a donated severed cadaver. “In...
Durham man sentenced to 40 years in 2023 double murder of teens
A Durham man has pleaded guilty to the 2023 shooting deaths of two high school students.
Teen attempting to die by suicide saved by Wake Co. deputy who credits crisis...
Deputy Garcia says his crisis intervention training prepared him for that night he saw the teen hanging over the ledge of a bridge.
4 people shot at two different Durham housing complexes
A man and two juveniles were shot at Oxford Manor, and another man was injured in a Cornwallis Road complex.
North Carolina baby, who spent 1st year in the hospital, goes home on her birthday
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) – For the first year of her life, a hospital room was the only home Isla Johnson had ever known. Each day, Leah and Eric Johnson drove nearly an hour from their house in Liberty to UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill to spend time with their baby, and each time they […]
These restaurants should open at Raleigh’s Crabtree Mall, readers say
Crabtree Valley Mall has been one of the most talked-about properties in the Triangle this year. After being on the market for about three years, the popular Raleigh mall was purchased by the real estate investment trust Macerich for $290 million. Months later, the new owners announced plans for a $60 million...
Enloe’s Fire Alarm Problem
“I’ve been getting home late every day for weeks, and I haven’t seen a dollar more in compensation,” complained Steve, a 36-year-old fire alarm working in Enloe’s West Gym Lobby. Over the past few weeks of this school year, more and more Enloe fire alarms have...
Why Amazon drivers can be laid off without the required 60 days’ notice
I’m Brian Gordon , tech reporter for The News & Observer , and this is Open Source, a weekly newsletter on business, labor and technology in North Carolina. While they may wear Amazon vests and drive Amazon-branded vans, the people who deliver Amazon packages to our doorsteps aren’t Amazon employees. They are...
