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Plans to construct the 28-mile Lower Neuse Greenway Trail will move forward, as long as the county isn’t subject to city park rules—namely, the city’s new ban on smoking in parks. The Raleigh Parks and Rec Department will maintain the greenway extending to the Johnston County line.
The Raleigh City Museum is requesting $15,000 from the City Council to supplement its budget for the next fiscal year. The money would go toward filling a $30,000 budget shortfall caused by a faulty air conditioner and a rental vacancy in the museum’s downtown Briggs Building location.
The Raleigh City Council is mulling over bonds to fund transportation projects and affordable housing. They also approved changes for the Wake Co. parking deck appearance, got a greenway grant and talked about traffic around Crabtree Valley this week.
The Raleigh City Council gave final approval this week for a site plan to build a six-story building at the corner of Clark Avenue and Oberlin Road in the Cameron Village shopping center.
Highly acclaimed plans to renovate Moore Square downtown are moving forward, despite a lack of specified funding.
Foresters in Raleigh are on a mission to count every tree in the city.
This story is the second in a two-part series on 93 men held at the federal prison in Butner after being deemed “sexually dangerous” by states across the country.
North Raleigh residents will have to wait a little longer to find out whether city leaders will approve a plan to expand a 60-year-old granite quarry near Umstead Park.
Raleigh city councilors approved a new set of rules for panhandling this week. The new rules will guide where people can ask for money, and allows panhandling only between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
The federal Bureau of Prisons claims that 93 men it holds in Butner Federal Corrections Complex 30 miles north of Raleigh are too “sexually dangerous” to release even though their sentences are up. The men are testing their “civil commitments” in the federal courts, claiming abuse of power and indefinite detention. The lawsuits started in the federal court in downtown Raleigh, but now the decisions have been sent up to the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court and the Supreme Court. Part 1 of 2.
