Garner News

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The contradictory changes are in the budget approved Wednesday by the Senate, and in a major transportation funding law approved by the House earlier this month.

The winner of Green Hope and Fuquay-Varina's fourth-round tilt will play in a best-of-three series, likely starting Thursday, against the winner of Garner at Richmond County.

Tata awarded a $130.1 million contract for the project to replace all pavement and make improvements to 11.5 miles of the expressway from U.S. 1/64 in Cary to U.S. 264 in East Raleigh.

Kyree Reginald Easter, 21, of Wilmington was being held in the Wake County Detention Center when Garner police served him with arrest warrants on Friday.

Profiles of three North Carolinians who live alone and are in what are sometimes called the “golden years” show that the gold is there for those who have plenty of it in the bank.

Fun Fact: The clay and concrete slabs that are part of the veterans memorial were the work of Thomas Sayre, who also created the iconic rings on the grounds of the N.C. Museum of Art.

Fuquay-Varina Independent Tim and Ashley Ruffin loved the J.E. Howard House because of the front porch, but inside, they said it is a solid home from 1923.

The list includes 16 new schools, full renovations for six schools, starting renovations on three schools and other projects.

Police said they found 33 grams of crack cocaine when they went into the room at the Econo Lodge at 1602 Mechanical Blvd.

One way or another, legislators tell Garner, they will soon strike the 2011 law banning study of the Red Route so the process of choosing a path for southern Interstate 540 can begin in earnest.

North Carolina State University Police have identified a man wanted in connection with the sexual assault last month of a student near the campus's Free Expression Tunnel.

The town will dedicate its new memorial at 10 a.m. Saturday. In addition, the town and the Rand's Mill Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will host a wreath-laying ceremony tonight at 7 p.m. The memorial consists of light gray slabs commemorating North Carolina's contributions to various U.S. conflicts, one for each decade, ... (more)

It's rush hour on Interstate 40 at Jones Sausage Road in Garner, and several vehicles are trying to merge into the busy traffic at the same time.

An arrest was made in an incident reported March 24 off NC 55 at Hazelton Lane, allegedly involving possession of marijuana.

They each had 30-year business careers behind them. She had spent her time in textiles, and he had worked in construction and owned a contracting business.

Scott "Scotty" McCreery[1] is an American country music singer from Garner, North Carolina.

There has long been a tension between county commission members and school board members.

As newly-grown leaves and mostly warmer temperatures announce the arrival of spring, the Town of Garner invites residents to celebrate by watching a hulk of a video-game villain struggle with his existence and a lion and zebra tear through Europe.

Raleigh City Council members say their decision to fire City Manager Russell Allen doesn't represent a "new direction," despite what the city's announcement of Allen's departure said.