Wake County News

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.

Federal standards require states to pay 87 percent of first-time unemployment claims within 21 days.

Law enforcement agencies across Wake County are joining forces to put out an alert about a 911 scam targeting senior citizens.

Superior Court Judge Henry Hight, however, delayed sentencing for Shabar Master Marshall, 17, who is set to go to trial Monday in two other similar cases.

From left, Raleigh city councilor members Wayne Maiorano, Russ Stephenson, Eugene Weeks, Mayor Nancy McFarlane and Bonner Gaylord listen as Eileen Navarrete, bottom, with the Public Utilities Dept., makes a presentation during the Raleigh City Council's first-ever lunch meeting at City Hall building on March 4, 2014.

Parents had expressed concerns to the Wake County school board about overcrowding at the western Cary school.

The legislature this year passed a budget that eliminates tenure in 2018. Meanwhile, school districts will offer the top 25 percent of teachers four-year contracts and escalating $500 a year raises for each of the next four years to relinquish their status.