Wake County News

Senate candidate Greg Brannon speaks at the Republican U.S. Senate forum that featured four Senate candidates Jan. 30; it was held at the Fox and Hound Bar & Grill in Huntersville.

A Wake County teenager faces serious charges after she was sent a sex video on her phone and she posted it on Instagram.

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

State officials couldn't provide an estimate of how many Medicaid applications are overdue across North Carolina, but about 1,700 families in Wake County alone are waiting for approval so they can obtain needed medical care.

Internal emails between staff at North Carolina's environmental agency suggest state regulators were coordinating with Duke Energy before intervening in efforts by citizens groups trying to sue the company over groundwater pollution leeching from its coal ash dumps.

Grayson Bruce's interest in "My Little Pony" has caused him to be bullied at school; his classmates say his favorite toy is for girls.

The Wendell Historical Society will present "The Whitley's of Wendell" at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 20, at the Wendell Town Hall, 15 E. Fourth St., Wendell.

Burning Coal Theatre Company and the Raleigh Boychoir will present Civil Rights Through Song: A Choral History of Raleigh Through the Civil Rights Era, a performance using choral music, dance and drama to celebrate the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s/early 1960s, today, March 13 - 23, 2014.

Wake County got a windfall of $6 million in hotel and restaurant taxes last year.

He hasn't put it quite this way, but what Gov. Pat McCrory seems to be saying - and who among us hasn't offered the same excuse? - is that it sounded like a good idea at the time.

New Bern aldermen hired a consultant Tuesday night to pursue the city's options in a possible buy-out deal with Duke Energy.

In recognition of North Carolina's 100 craft breweries and their positive impact on the state's economy, Governor Pat McCrory has proclaimed April 2014 as "North Caro NC Beer Month, co-sponsored by the North Carolina Division of Tourism and the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild, encourages residents and travelers alike to explore a wide range of ... (more)

"Instead of looking at what we can do, we've been looking at what we can do without," Zebulon Finance Director Bobby Fitts told fellow department heads and the town board at its annual retreat Feb. 25. The same two issues that have haunted Zebulon in recent years are expected to continue to complicate the town's finances for several more years, ... (more)

The board in a 4-2 vote decided to take the recommendation of the public safety committee to raise the cost of adopting a dog to $150 and a cat to $100 plus an additional $5 charge for a rabies vaccine.

But it's too early to tell if their words had any effect. Four projects, including two in Morrisville and Holly Springs, are finalists to receive grant money aimed at boosting tourism in the county.

From left to right: DAR General James Moore Chapter Good Citizens award chairman, Tamara Porter, Rachel Kate Cockrell, Anna Whitfield, Orvelin Villarreal, Jr., Mary Katharine Valchar, Scottlin Olivia Davis and chapter regent Carolyn Coordes.

Attorneys for an Army general charged with sexual assault said Tuesday that they have decided to try to renegotiate a plea bargain with a new set of military officials after the judge determined that the case may have been improperly influenced by...

The Democratic Party managed to select a new executive director without resorting to a screaming fit.

The Vance County school board will join school districts across the state in adopting an alternate assessment to the Read to Achieve third-grade reading portfolio.

A couple of years ago, two members of the state House who had been overseeing efforts to rein in abusive homeowners associations gave their colleagues a skeptical send-off as they handed over leadership of their committee.