Wake County News

The Vance County school board at its meeting Monday night could approve alternative assessments for third-graders to demonstrate reading proficiency.

Duke Energy must take immediate action to eliminate sources of groundwater contamination that are currently violating water quality standards at its 14 coal-fired power plants in North Carolina, a Wake County judge ruled March 6. The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources has found that Duke's coal ash retention ponds -- most of which ... (more)

Former state Sen. Cal Cunningham had strong words for Raleigh City Manager Ruffin Hall after city leaders rejected Exploris Charter School's request to rent the old Salvation Army building at Moore Square.

Mountcastle, a first-time candidate and longtime Wake County resident, graduated from high school in Raleigh and has two children in Knightdale schools.

The National Weather Service's Raleigh Forecast Office said Wake County averaged anywhere from a quarter-inch to a half-inch of slippery precipitation.

Wake County NCAE President Larry Nilles, left, stands with nearly 100 others giving Wake County School Board members a standing ovation after their passage of a resolution opposing the state's plan to offer pay raises to top teachers in return for them giving up tenure.

The party's internal battles – fraught with disputes about strategy and spending – broke open a month ago with the firing of its executive director.

Brian and Emily Quigley, pictured here in the Outer Banks last summer, are both semifinalists for Wake County's Teacher of the Year award.

Those rescues were simulations, part of an agricultural training class the department participated in to better prepare them for some of the demands cropping up in its coverage area.

Elden B. Perry of 1208 Kirkwell Place was charged by Raleigh police Thursday with one felony count of voluntary manslaughter, according to an arrest warrant filed at the Wake County Magistrate's Office.

Mark Bishopric, a managing partner of Three Rivers Outfitters, paddles past the Duke energy Dan River Steam Station Tuesday.

Cary's free Kite Festival is at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, March 22, at Fred G. Bond Metro Park, 801 High House Road.

The annual awards recognize programs demonstrating a strong commitment to academic standards, innovation, diversity, specialized teaching staffs and parent and community involvement.

Orange, Durham and Chatham counties, however, and counties west are covered by a winter weather advisory that the National Weather Service issued from 6 p.m. Thursday through midday Friday.

A North Carolina judge says Duke Energy must take immediate action to eliminate the source of groundwater pollution at its coal ash dumps.

A college student accused of killing two Good Samaritans on Interstate 40 during a winter storm last month, was in court Thursday morning as a Wake County judge decided to lower his bond.

Modou Thomas, 37, was again arrested at his home at 4916 Collard Patch Lane, a Garner address in unincorporated Wake County.

John McWilliam, a Raleigh attorney representing some of the demonstrators arrested June 12, said he issued subpoenas for N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate President Phil Berger to find out more about the enforcement of the building rules his clients had been accused of violating.

For most of that evening, anonymous accounts on Instagram, a photo-sharing service, purported to show and shame girls and a few boys from the Wake County Public School System.

Gov. Pat McCrory says he's looking at whether he'd like changes to a law phasing out job protections of North Carolina school teachers while giving raises to the highest-rated instructors who enter multiyear contracts.