20+ hour, 19+ min ago   (162+ words) The Chapel Hill Police Department is investigating a spike in vehicle break-ins reported overnight Friday. Police said about 60 vehicle break-ins were reported in various areas along major routes, including Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Raleigh Road. “We’re asking community…...

1+ day, 21+ min ago   (229+ words) A woman died after being struck by an Amtrak train Friday night in West Raleigh, Raleigh police said. Officers responded around 8:47 p.m. to the area of Powell Drive near Hillsborough Street following a report that a person had been struck by…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (678+ words) Downtown Raleigh is among the fastest-growing areas in the Triangle, with nearly 7,000 new homes created since 2015, according to the Downtown Raleigh Alliance. But only 274, or less than 4%, of those new homes were owner-occupied, according to the alliance, the downtown booster…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (213+ words) $590M PFAS settlement: Chemours, DuPont and Corteva have agreed to pay North Carolina $590 million to resolve lawsuits over decades of PFAS contamination in the Cape Fear River and nearby water systems. State leaders say the deal is stronger than a previous…...

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2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (453+ words) Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the country is remembering the nearly 3,000 lives lost in a day that permanently shaped the national landscape. Several memorials in the Triangle and across the state are home to remnants of the fallen…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (174+ words) These days, the financial value of higher education is a live question in North Carolina. But the business magazine Forbes has good news for the industry: it argues that “a solid undergraduate education still pays off.” That’s more true at…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (170+ words) Volaris, the low-cost Mexican airline, will begin flying nonstop between the Triangle and Guadalajara, Mexico, in October. Volaris will begin flying between Raleigh-Durham International Airport and Guadalajara three days a week on Oct. 16. It will fly the route on Wednesdays,…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1410+ words) Since 2023, state lawmakers have been made aware that Wake County and many other North Carolina prosecutorial districts are in need of more assistant district attorneys. Wake alone has 45 prosecutors when a study says it should have 70. But in the past…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (700+ words) An organization that started with a pop-up coffee shop is now creating a clubhouse in downtown Chapel Hill for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A January grand opening is planned for the B3 Clubhouse at 308 W. Rosemary St., according to a…...