Raleigh News

The Flaming Lips are filling out their summer schedule with more tour dates. The indie rockers previously announced plans to play the Rock for Oklahoma benefit concert in their hometown of Oklahoma City on July 23rd.

This dispatch comes to you from the city of New Orleans, where my wife and I have been visitors the last few days.

"Governor McCrory will be back out tomorrow throwing the baseball perhaps with children who share his All-American passion."

Instead, blank sheets of butcher paper obscure its storefront windows, top to bottom.

The pageant is going on now through Saturday, June 22 at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh.

Jimmy V's Osteria + Bar, named for the man who led the Wolfpack to a 1983 NCAA title and gave the inspiring "Don't Give Up" ESPY Awards speech eight weeks before he died from cancer in 1993, will open July 23 in the Sheraton at 420 Fayetteville St. "We feel really good about our concept and this city," said Jim Henning, the restaurant's general ... (more)

In all, proposed fare hikes of up to 50 percent would bring in up to $138,000 in new revenue by 2015.

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.

A Superior Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order to end raucous adult parties at a north Raleigh mansion after neighbors complained.

Police rearrested 33-year-old Adetoye Taoheed Adekanmbi Tuesday and charged him with one count of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury in a hit-and-run accident that killed a teenager and injured another one in Raleigh over the weekend.

This photo provided by NASA shows Christina M. Hammock. NASA has eight new astronauts _ its first new batch in four years.

Rep. Michael Speciale, a New Bern Republican, does not look as protesters, police, journalists and legal observers file past him on the second floor of the North Carolina State Legislative Building on Monday, June 17, 2013, prior to an act of civil disobedience opposing the Republican legislature's agenda.

Here are some of the high-priority Raleigh road projects that could be included in a bond package of up to $75 million this fall: - In an effort to widen and improve some of the city's busiest streets, the Raleigh City Council will vote Tuesday on a proposal to place a $75 million transportation bond on the ballot in October.

The risk of flash flooding will expand from the South into the mid-Atlantic on Tuesday, threatening Atlanta, Ga., Raleigh, N.C., and Philadelphia, Pa.

Aptech Computer Systems, Inc., the leading provider of hospitality software for business intelligence and enterprise financial accounting, announced that Concord Hospitality implemented the Execuvue Business Intelligence System throughout its portfolio.

Take Sen. Neal Hunt’s proposal to let drivers go 75 mph on some North Carolina highways.

Working toward his Harvard University law degree, Jon Wall wants to one day return to Wake County and address the disparities he sees within the county school system.

RALEIGH, Jun 18, 2013 -- A 46-year-old woman was charged with murder early Monday after the body of the man with whom she shares a home was found near Falls Lake on Sunday.

Retirees without any kind of a plan are just going home to their spouses with nothing to do and causing stress in their marriages.

A PNC Bank branch at 14400 New Falls of Neuse Road was robbed at about 1:20 p.m., police said.