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A Wake County student has earned a spot in Thursday’s nationally televised finals of the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Kushi Gottimukkala, 13, a seventh-grade student at Carnage Magnet Middle School in Raleigh, was among nine spellers who qualified for the finals after Wednesday’s grueling quarterfinal and semifi

NORTH CAROLINA — A man was hospitalized Wednesday night after a shooting on South Saunders Street in Raleigh, according to police. The Raleigh Police Department said officers responded around 8 p.m. to reports of a shooting in the 2600 block of South Saunders Street. When officers arrived, they found a man suffering fr

The victim was shot in the lower body and taken to a hospital, where he was expected to recover.

A small plane crashed after striking several storage trailers at Raleigh East Airport.

North Carolina is holding dozens of events this year to celebrate America’s 250th birthday — but the state’s Museum of History won’t be hosting them at its downtown Raleigh building, which remains closed for a four-year renovation project. Much of the building that’s told North Carolina’s...

Wake County school board members want a more comprehensive policy on how students and teachers can use artificial intelligence before the regulations go into next school year. School administrators told the board’s policy committee on Tuesday that it’s important to get a draft AI policy approved and in place in schools

Despite economic headwinds like rising land costs and high interest rates, the Triangle is booming — but it’s uneven, new data from ConsumerAffairs shows. The Raleigh metro area, including Cary, Apex, Morrisville and Holly Springs, continued to operate like “one of the nation’s top builder metros,” ranking No. 14 out o

UNC Health offered to invest $5 billion in WakeMed as part of a proposed merger, according to documents about the unsolicited proposal The Assembly has obtained. That’s $3 billion more than Atrium Health offered. But it was not enough to sway WakeMed’s board of directors, which quickly (albeit politely) declined UNC’s

HITT Contracting Inc. has broken ground on a new headquarters campus for the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, marking the first major redevelopment of the agency’s Raleigh site in more than 50 years. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on Garner Road with project partners including HITT Contracting Inc...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Attorneys and law enforcement in Eastern Carolina say the shooting of two attorneys outside the Wake County Courthouse is a reminder that safety concerns don’t end when court security checkpoints do. The Pitt County Courthouse has multiple layers of security inside the building, including meta