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The Raleigh City Council approved changes Tuesday to the language of the panhandling ordinance. The city attorney says the changes make the ordinance more defensible if challenged in court.
Wake County commissioners voted Monday to support a state law requiring voter ID cards. In other business, officials announced cuts to Health and Human Services funding and some residents spoke out against a proposed feral cat program.
James Bibbs has withdrawn from the race, citing a medical issue in the family.
Experts question the state’s ability to properly gauge environmental impact of fracking with only a $100,000 budget and recommend further evaluation.
A City Council committee is debating whether to add more bike lanes or on-street parking for a second stretch of Hillsborough Street, this time just east of the N.C. State Campus.
City-backed loans are helping small businesses to get up and running. So why is no one using them?
Wake County officials are considering the addition of a Trap-Neuter-Return alternative to control feral cat populations.
After studying 30 years of satellite imagery, a UNC Charlotte research project says Triangle counties have developed land at a faster rate than they’ve added people.
Dear readers,
Journalism is changing – in some ways for the better, in other ways for the worse. Today I’d like to share with you one small development in that larger change that signals hope that we can hold on to the media institutions we need while adapting to the new realities of readership: The Raleigh Public Record is now a member of the North Carolina Press Association.
When residents pointed out that a century-old family cemetery would be disturbed to make room for the new four-lane road project on Leesville Road, the city council sent the plans back to the Public Works committee to find a compromise.
