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Cary Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival: unlimited tastings, delicious food, live music, and fun. Don’t miss out!. Cary, get ready for a day of beer sippin’, bourbon tastin’, music listenin’, and BBQ eatin’ — the 17th Annual Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival is back in August for TWO WHOLE DAYS.

When a restaurant’s oysters become the stuff of legend, you know you’ve stumbled upon something extraordinary, and The Blind Pelican Seafood House in Holly Springs serves bivalves that have people driving hours just for a taste. This brick building doesn’t scream “world-class seafood” from the outside, but...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WRAL) – A North Carolina woman is recovering after she said a copperhead snake bit her on Friday. At 76 years old, New York native turned Raleigh resident Lisa Austin is not fazed by much. “I’m a New Yorker. We’re tough,” she said. However,...

Alder Marin Sotelo escaped from a Virginia jail and fled to Mexico, back in 2023.

Several weeks ago, a reader emailed to politely point out that my po’boy roll at Imbibe wasn’t stale, as I’d written in a previous column—it was Leidenheimer bread, an intentionally crunchy bread that the restaurant imports directly from New Orleans. Sorry, Imbibe! In an attempt to...

Governor Stein signed six bills into law in a live press conference Tuesday morning.

June was undeniably hot, but did you know it recorded the highest average June temperature ever at RDU?

This story originally published in The 9th Street Journal. Pollution in Falls Lake has long concerned environmentalists and others, even landing parts of the lake on North Carolina’s list of impaired waters. Now the city is pursuing an unconventional way to treat the lake’s water quality: algae. The...

North Carolina’s revolutionary past comes to life at Hillsborough’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of The Third Provincial Congress on Saturday, September 6, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in historic downtown Hillsborough. This free public event honors the pivotal 1775 gathering that helped shape the path...

Plans for a new mixed-use project at the former Kingsdown mattress site in downtown Mebane, North Carolina have surfaced. A South Carolina builder wants to add 87 townhouses plus shops at West Washington and Third streets. After buying the land for $3.3 million last August, the builder scrapped an earlier...