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Raleigh wide shut?

The Capital City's leaders are throwing Raleigh Wide Open 3 this weekend to celebrate the new downtown convention center's completion.

Updated: Sep. 3, 2008 2:23 AM | Full story

In praise of stellar teachers

School is back in session, but the teacher who helped get your son or daughter off to such a good start is gone.

Updated: Aug. 27, 2008 5:25 AM | Full story

MidNorth questions answered

Last week's launch of Midtown Raleigh News, the twin of our established North Raleigh News, brought lots of reader comment, cheers, questions, some doubts and a few fears.

Updated: Aug. 20, 2008 11:12 AM | Full story

Welcome to new North Raleigh News

This weekly community newspaper has been so popular since its debut almost nine years ago that we're cloning it today with the new Midtown Raleigh News, which serves the Capital City's middle third.

Updated: Aug. 13, 2008 7:19 AM | Full story

Coming: Your new local news

Matthew Eisley:North Raleigh has never stood still and neither has the North Raleigh News.

Updated: Aug. 8, 2008 1:24 AM | Full story

Editor's Note

Your North Raleigh News is changing. Starting Aug. 13, it will arrive Wednesdays instead of Fridays. The same day, some of you will instead begin getting its twin, the new, weekly Midtown News.

Updated: Aug. 1, 2008 8:34 AM | Full story

Raleigh mall's day of horror

Matthew Eisley:Last weekend's gang-fueled "brawl at the mall" put North Raleigh's Triangle Town Center in an unwanted news spotlight for days.

Updated: Aug. 1, 2008 1:04 AM | Full story

A better year --by a yard

Matthew Eisley:A rainy summer sure beats a yard-withering drought. Growing up in southwest Georgia, I never thought I'd long for more humid dog days. But after last year's arid baking that we called summer, I'll take it.

Updated: Jul. 25, 2008 1:24 AM | Full story

Lakes are a draw, not flaw

Matthew Eisley:As Wake County's residents and leaders debate important decisions about planning the future Little River Reservoir, we should keep this in mind: We've been here before.

Updated: Jul. 18, 2008 2:21 AM | Full story

No input on lake? Seriously?

Matthew Eisley:There might be good reasons to oppose Wake County's decades-long plan to help thirsty Raleigh build the future Little River Reservoir between Rolesville and Zebulon.

Updated: Jul. 11, 2008 1:22 AM | Full story

Crabtree road plan in doubt

Matthew Eisley:In an irony of city planning, the development surge in North Raleigh's Crabtree Valley is snuffing out an old proposal to alleviate the key side effect of the hub's growth: congested traffic.

Updated: Jul. 4, 2008 2:43 AM | Full story

Room to grow, flow, go

Matthew Eisley::It's a small parcel, just five acres, off North Raleigh's crowded Glenwood Avenue. But the Rooms to Go furniture store's urge to grow there, between a bustling thoroughfare and a quiet neighborhood, poses this question for city planners and policy makers

Updated: Sep. 28, 2007 5:05 PM | Full story

N. Wake vs. an airport

Northeast Wake County residents are getting a taste of development conflicts familiar to those who live and work near Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

Updated: Mar. 30, 2007 3:27 AM | Full story

Forgery slows shops

It looks like a fast-growing section of North Raleigh will get a new shopping center the city already approved once -- as soon as the regrettable matter of a forged real-estate document gets worked out.

Updated: Apr. 27, 2007 3:23 AM | Full story
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