Raleigh NC

Construction is underway on a new pedestrian bridge over Wade Avenue in Raleigh, as part of the Blue Ridge Road Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Project. Crews are scheduled to lift the first of two steel bridge sections over eastbound Wade Avenue on Friday night, Oct. 3, continuing into early Saturday morning. The...

Clayton resident Jhonatan Hurtado Espinal won the first $1 million top prize in a new scratch-off game, opting for a $600,000 lump sum and taking home $430,503 after taxes. Four top prizes remain.

Police say the shooting was a result of a domestic dispute.

Durham police say a young man was killed in a shooting just before midnight just east of downtown.

The Durham Police Department is investigating a fatal shooting of a young man in East Durham late Tuesday night. At 11:56 p.m., officers responded to a report of gunshots in the 1500 block of Lathrop Street, a block from Holloway Street, and found 20-year-old Tykeon Holloway, 20, of Durham with a gunshot wound. He...

Daniel H. Johnson has been sworn in as North Carolina’s new transportation secretary, succeeding Joey Hopkins after his retirement and bringing extensive DOT and public service experience to the role.

The university alleges that chemical company Monsanto made the PCBs used in building materials to construct Poe Hall in 1971.

Police have charged a Wake Forest man with fatally shooting his girlfriend Tuesday night. Josefina Tavarez, 40, was found shot at 6:20 p.m. at the Mill Dam Road home she shared with 44-year-old Hariston Jose Ureña-Morales, according to a news release from the town of Wake Forest. She died at the hospital, officials...

Niche just released its list of the best schools in America, and a Triangle school is at the top. The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham is the No. 1 public high school in the country , according to Niche. The platform’s rankings include more than 93,000 public schools, 30,000 private schools...

A flatbed truck lost its load on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh.