Featured
Some new faces for the Carolina Rollergirls
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Record photographer Karen Tam went to the Carolina Rollergirls tryouts. She didn’t go out for the team, but she did bring back some wonderful photos.
News
Wake Co. library’s best of 2010
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The most popular books for 2010 at the Wake County Public Library system.
News
Returning to Raleigh
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Two local Army veterans who served in Iraq reflect on coming home to Raleigh.
City Council
City moves forward with new facility despite contamination
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The Raleigh City Council voted this week to move forward on developing a new facility on a hazardous waste site after depleting a $300,000 escrow account earmarked for environmental cleanup. Additional cleanup efforts would cost $420,000 over the next three years, with the total climbing to about $1.5 million over thirty years of monitoring.
City Council
Parks: council delays vote on smoking, acts on new fees
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Raleigh city councilors delayed voting on banning smoking in city parks Tuesday because of unanswered questions over costs for signage and how to enforce the ban.
County Government
County outsources transportation of mentally ill
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The Wake County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to outsource the transportation of involuntarily committed mental health patients to a private security company.
City Council
Council preview: Reorganizing at the top and banning smoking in parks
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The Raleigh City Council could ban smoking in parks this week. Councilors will also consider a major reorganization of city administrators and could nix a land deal because of environmental problems.
City Council
A long-term plan for a major West Raleigh intersection
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The city has a new plan that would guide future development around the Jones Franklin Road, Western Boulevard and Hillsborough Street intersections. The West Citizens Advisory Council approved the plan this week and it will go before the council early next year.
Police Blotter
Dec. 15 blotter
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How do you steel an industrial dishwasher? Plus, the case of the stolen nachos.
News
Many student reassignments remain deadlocked
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Wake County school board member Debra Goldman broke with the majority again Tuesday night, by siding with the board minority in voting down consideration of multiple student reassignments, mostly effecting Southeast Raleigh.
