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This week's cold weather may tax North Carolina's power systems more than any other time of the year, but Duke Energy, the state's largest utility, says it is ready.Click to Continue »

The Raleigh City Council now is considering the first of a series of water and sewer rate hikes. Scheduled for July, the initial increase would add about 7 percent to…Click to Continue »

“American Sniper” was as thoughtful as a movie featuring exploding heads and maimed bodies can be.Click to Continue »

Muslims in the U.S. and around the world have a responsibility to fight a misconception that terrorist groups like the Islamic State speak for them, President Barack Obama said Wednesday…Click to Continue »

Some Wake County students are spending their Wednesday competing for gifts in the school system's Snow Day Twitter Contest.Click to Continue »

Police have released the names of the two men found dead outdoors in East Raleigh over the weekend, but say they’re still awaiting an autopsy to say for sure how…Click to Continue »

An analysis concludes that North Carolina's community colleges, public and private universities generate the equivalent of 1 million new jobs, or 14.6 percent of the Gross State Product. The study…Click to Continue »

Some Wake County parents and students have been working off an outdated list of school makeup days for traditional-calendar schools, helping to fuel questions about why the first day of…Click to Continue »

Almost 560,000 people in North Carolina bought 2015 health insurance on the Affordable Care Act exchange, a 56 percent increase over last year.Click to Continue »

For many in the Triangle, the first day of Lent began on an especially sorrowful note: roads too slippery for traveling, even to church on Ash Wednesday. So some United…Click to Continue »