Wake County News

Two women, Nicole Dozier and Denise Wilkie, were sworn into office. They are the first women to serve on the Apex Town Council in 12 years.

Shannon Johnstone hugs a pit bull mix named Nancy Botwin while taking photographs of the shelter dog at a former landfill Wednesday in Raleigh.

A North Carolina photographer hopes her pictures of shelter dogs at a former landfill will help find homes for them and raise awareness of the need for spaying and neutering.

The Friends of Wake County Guardian ad Litem Program enhance the lives of at-risk children and their caregivers through programs which promote their physical, educational, and emotional well-being.

As an audience countdown struck "one," the Lucky Strike tower at the American Tobacco Campus Friday lit up with rows of multicolored bulbs.

About a year after a Wake Forest mother pushed the state to investigate why several local teenagers were battling a rare form of cancer, state officials say they have found no cause or reason to classify the cases as a cancer cluster .

The Benson Center for Active Aging , formerly the Benson Senior Center, offers a variety of programs for adults 60 and older.

A new home on the corner of Bennettwood Ct.. and W. Millbrook Rd. in the Bennett Place subdivision in NW Raleigh is worked on Oct. 1, 2013.

The town of Apex relinquished the bar from its zoning jurisdiction in October. The town had specifically asked to include the bar in its extra-territorial jurisdiction in 2007.

Teacher turnover in North Carolina reached a five-year high last year with more teachers leaving their classrooms to take new jobs in education or move.

Police have accused Stalf of robbing the PNC Bank at 3619 Rogers Road around noon on Wednesday.

Cash Michaels is skewering the "Kushner Seven," charging that the seven Wake County school board members who removed Keith Sutton as chairman on Tuesday had "stabbed" him in the back.

The Rev. William Barber II had just been convicted of two misdemeanors related to a spring protest inside the North Carolina Legislative Building when he walked across a Wake County courtroom with his right arm outstretched.

The office in the Holly Park Shopping Center just inside the Beltline will be closed Monday for the move.

Few states do an adequate job of making their supreme court justices disclose potential financial conflicts of interest, according to a report published Wednesday by the Center for Public Integrity.

A judge has dismissed one of the three charges against North Carolina NAACP President William Barber and 11 others facing trial for protesting at the state legislature.

Plans for light rail connecting Durham and Orange counties will proceed even if Wake County has stalled on the issue.

In an October 2012 file photo, Wake County school board members John Tedesco, left, and Christine Kushner listen to Deborah Prickett, right, during a work session.

Four lanes of Interstate 440 West at the southeast corner of Raleigh's Beltline will be reduced to two lanes starting Thursday morning in the first step of the NC DOT's three-year rebuild of an 11-mile stretch of I-40 and I-440 across south Raleigh.

RALEIGH A charter school that had planned to open in the fall of 2012 and offer only online classes failed to convince the N.C. Court of Appeals that it should have been allowed to move forward with its plan without approval by the State Board of Education.