• Raleighs Approved Budget Has No Tax Increase

  The Raleigh City Council today unanimously approved the Fiscal Year 2013-14 budget. The budget does not increase property taxes or solid waste, stormwater or privilege license fees. It does include an additional $13.9 million in revenue for the City's Public Utilities' system. The additional revenue is derived from a 14 percent sewer volumetric rate increase and a redesign of the ...

• GE Aviation to Add 50 Jobs in North Carolina

  GE Aviation confirmed Monday a plan to add 50 jobs at its engine assembly plant in Durham, N.C., to boost capacity for assembly of a new jet engine that one company official said is being developed to power heavily-used aircraft. The company formally announced the plans to add capacity at the Durham plant as part of larger announcement of a $195 million total statewide investment that ...

• Durham police investigating fatal shooting

  Durham, N.C. - Investigators are looking into a fatal shooting that happened in east Durham Tuesday morning.Kammie Michael, a spokeswoman for the Durham Police Department, said officers responding to a 911 call around 11:40 a.m. found Jermaine Andrea McDonald, 37, dead in the street in front of a house in the 100 block of North Hyde Park Avenue.Police said McDonald lived on the street, but ...

• Swift Drive Road Closure Extended Through June 28 for Drainage Improvement Project

  . Swift Drive is currently closed between Octavia Street and Merwin Road. Additional time is needed to complete the improvements being made to the Lail Court culvert. Swift Drive will remain closed through Friday, June 28. Any questions regarding the project should be directed to the Stormwater Utility ...

• Protesters jailed as they decry Republican shift in North Carolina

  RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - A conservative shift by North Carolina's first Republican-led government in more than a century is drawing weekly protests to the state capital of Raleigh, but some lawmakers are defiantly standing their ...

• NC State grad selected as new NASA astronaut

  JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - Christina Hammock is realizing a dream she has had since she was a 6-year-old growing up on the North Carolina coast. The 34-year-old Jacksonville native, who has undergraduate and graduate degrees from North Carolina State, is among eight candidates selected to begin astronaut training by NASA. Hammock, currently assigned to National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

• Speed-limit hike zooms to House vote

  Raleigh, N.C. - The state House could vote Wednesday on a proposal that would allow the state Department of Transportation to raise the speed limit on some highways to 75 mph. passed the House Transportation Committee on Tuesday, despite concerns voiced by Democrats and Republicans on the panel. The current maximum speed on North Carolina highways is 70 mph, but bill backers want to allow ...

• Raleigh looks to tap Falls Lake for more drinking water

  Raleigh, N.C. - City officials fear Raleigh's demand for water will outstrip supply by 2040, so the City Council agreed Tuesday to pay for a study of Falls Lake to see if more drinking water can be pulled from the reservoir in the future.The water in Falls Lake is dedicated to different purposes, and the $450,000 study by the Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the lake, will determine ...

• Man faces additional charge in fatal Raleigh hit-and-run

  Raleigh, N.C. - A Cary man facing charges in the weekend hit-and-run death of a woman in Raleigh now faces an additional charge in the case.Adetoye Taoheed Adekanmbi, 33, of 103 E. Chalfont Way, was arrested Saturday on two counts of felony hit-and-run causing bodily injury or death and driving with a revoked license in connection with the Hillsborough Street collision that killed Natalie ...

• Raleigh Joins With Army COE to Study Falls Lake Water Reallocation

  The Raleigh City Council today addressed the growing need for additional water resources in the Raleigh area. Local demand for water is projected to exceed supply by 2040. Council agreed to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to fund a reallocation study of the water stored in the Falls Lake reservoir. Falls Lake is the primary source of drinking ...

• Wakefield High School Girl’s Track Team

  The Raleigh City Council today honored the Wakefield High School Girl's Track Team for their win at the 4A Mideast Track and Field Regional and their second-place finish in the state 4A ...

• Highlights of the Municipal Art Collection Exhibition Opens July 11 At Block Art Gallery

  "Highlights of the Municipal Art Collection," an exhibition sponsored by the City of Raleigh Arts Commission, will be on display July 11 to Aug. 23 at the Miriam Preston Block Art Gallery in the Avery C. Upchurch Government Complex, 222 W. Hargett St. Featured artists include Shaun Richards, Jason Craighead, Marty Baird and Anthony Ulinski. An opening reception for the exhibition will ...

• Hundreds Of Faith Leaders Arrested For Protesting Conservative Policies In North Carolina

  citing scripture as they propose regressive laws and policies. But when a growing coalition of North Carolina progressives descended on Raleigh, N.C., Monday to decry the state's Republican legislature, they drew support from another source of moral authority: progressive faith leaders. Throngs of demonstrators gathered outside the North Carolina statehouse on Monday, as they have every ...

• Scientists Soggy British weather likely to stay

  Weather scientists said Tuesday that a country that has been unusually soggy in recent years is not likely to dry out soon, and a warm Atlantic Ocean may be to ...

• Neighbors sue to shut down Raleigh party mansion

  Raleigh, N.C. - A Superior Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order to end raucous adult parties at a north Raleigh mansion after neighbors complained.Radcliffe Homeowners Association filed a complaint against Claude Verbal II, Pamela Verbal and Metropolitan Lifestyle Group LLC over parties at the home, at 10625 Marion Stone Way.The 15,224-square-foot home, which the Verbals ...

• Reporters Take SAS is serious about its energy sector software

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• Today NCCapitol Gov. Holshouser remembered Democrats patch some differences

  Raleigh, N.C. - Good morning and welcome to Today @NCCapitol for Tuesday, June 18. This is WRAL's roundup of what you need to know about North Carolina state government today. BUDGET: The state Senate officially rejected the House version of the state budget Monday night. "The House tinkered ever so slightly with this bill. I think I need to chat with them about it," Sen. ...

• Tropical depression heads toward southern Mexico

  MIAMI, FL (AP) - Forecasters said a tropical depression is expected to bring at least three to five inches of rain to parts of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and southern Mexico. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the Atlantic season's second tropical depression formed Monday off Belize and was moving early Tuesday over parts of Belize and northern Guatemala. At 4 a.m. Tuesday, it ...

• Wake superintendent announcement expected Tuesday

  Raleigh, N.C. - Wake County residents should learn Tuesday who will become their next superintendent of schools.The Wake County Board of Education is expected to name the new hire during its regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. The appointment is the last item on a long meeting agenda that includes picking names for two high schools in Garner and Cary and discussing whether to continue a program that ...

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