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Organizers behind the successor to Raleigh's Dreamville Festival still don't have 2026 dates. Why it matters: The city is keen to keep Dreamville alive despite the original organizers stepping back last year. The festival draws tens of thousands of people to Raleigh every spring, and attendees inject millions of...

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. Wolfspeed has pivoted before. Until the early 2020s, the large Durham company made both LED lights and a unique semiconductor called silicon carbide. Then, faced...

Kane Realty has submitted proposals for a structure with apartments, retail space, and restaurants.

Animal shelters are usually full of noise, movement, and uncertainty. But inside the SPCA of Wake County in Raleigh, two small souls found something rare in the middle of it all: peace. Hugo, an energetic puppy, and Buck, a fragile kitten, were both waiting for their next chapter when they...

CARY, N.C. (WNCN) — A dog is dead after falling through a frozen pond in Cary on Wednesday afternoon, police said. According to the Cary Police Department, a witness saw the dog fall through a thin layer of ice on a retention pond in the 100 block of Burlingame Way at around 7:30 a.m. The witness called 911 to report...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WBTV) - A major banking company plans to lay off more than 100 employees from an office in North Carolina. Wells Fargo sent a notice to local and state leaders, in which it confirmed that it plans to permanently lay off 112 workers from its office on Corporate Center Drive in Raleigh.

In a world as big as Earth, many countries are less recognized, and in a school as large as Athens, many students go unnoticed as well. Among these students is Adel Baizhanova, an exchange student from Kazakhstan. “It’s a country that nobody knows here in the U.S.A., so when I...

The man killed in a shooting at a North Hills restaurant last year was shot at least eight times, according to an autopsy report released to The News & Observer on Wednesday. Jonathan Mark Schaffer, 26, died in the Jan. 21, 2025, shooting at Coquette Brasserie, a French restaurant, The N&O previously reported. He was...

Property crime in Raleigh dropped 17% last year, according to the Raleigh Police Department’s annual crime report released Wednesday. Total property crime incidents declined from 14,200 in 2024 to 11,758 in 2025. Much of the drop came from fewer motor-vehicle thefts and larcenies from vehicles. Crime in those...

JOHNSTON COUNTY — A northern Johnston County couple is facing drug charges following the execution of a narcotics search warrant at their home, according to the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies with the sheriff’s office narcotics division served the warrant Jan. 30 at a residence in the 400...