Wake County News

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.

The Olde Raleigh apartments off Duraleigh Road in northwest Raleigh have been acquired for $27 million, according to Wake County property records.

The case against NAACP President Rev. William Barber and others arrested during so-called Moral Monday protests at the North Carolina General Assembly resumed Tuesday after a delay of more than a month.

The partisan start to the new term was in keeping with the division that has marked the working of the board in recent years, and the split was again in evidence on some of the issues – including schools' land purchase and construction – that came before commissioners during a 4 1/2-hour meeting.

Adcock, 59, has served on the Cary council since 2007 and has been mayor pro tem for the past two years.

Morrisville wants to bring an indoor ice rink and sports complex to town. Holly Springs wants a sports stadium, tennis courts and a greenway.

Community members and staff from Wake County public schools agreed early that one of their goals was to try to get more students to stay at the town's six schools.

Improvements to the east side of Smithfield Road have been broken into multiple parts to help the town fund the work.

After years of being covered by banners, the gray cement walls of a downtown Raleigh parking garage will soon be surrounded by the mix of offices and shops that a developer envisioned years ago.

Pace, his brother Bobby Pace and friends Elmo Finch, Allen Mitchell and Julius Murray, became acquaintances with the late A.L. Hamm of Durham, where the eastern Wake farmers sold their tobacco at the time.

But when Raleigh resident and one of the masterminds behind the Listening Tour, Octavia Rainey, asked about bus transportation, residents perked up.