After decades of complaints from residents, the city of Raleigh will end its loose-leaf pick-up program next year.
Raleigh homeowners will no longer be allowed to rake their leaves to the curb to be collected twice a year in the fall and winter months.
Instead, starting in fall 2026, residents will have to either bag their leaves; put them in their bright green, yard-waste carts; take them to the city’s yard-waste center; or leave them in the yard…