Prison project stuns Boylan Heights
About 70 Boylan Heights residents turned out for a meeting Tuesday night, many of them angry to be learning about a massive expansion of Central Prison only after construction got under way.
Traffic deaths tumble as gas prices soar
Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the OPEC oil embargo three decades ago.
Developer pulls plan to replace Glen Lennox
Grubb Properties has withdrawn its controversial plan to replace the Glen Lennox apartments and shopping center, one of the state's oldest.
Keen to be green, but how to do it?
Meeting draws employers to talk about environment.
State tries to avoid repeat of paving, parking park furor
Road Worrier:Plans to ban parking and lay asphalt on Old Reedy Creek Road are on hold while Cary considers building a parking lot for Umstead State Park patrons on town-owned land.
Cruel cost of fuel is all-purpose excuse
High-priced petroleum has given the Triangle a handy tool for avoiding unpleasant chores. Tired of driving to see the in-laws? Want to skip mowing the lawn? Just use The Gas Excuse.
'Gotcha!' cams give Cary little
Road Worrier:Only about 13 cents of every dollar of Cary's red-light camera money comes back home.
Judge to hear state's claim that TVA power plants pollute N.C.
A lawsuit that aims to stem pollution wafting into North Carolina from coal-fired power plants in other states goes to trial today in a federal courthouse in Asheville.
Lull gives conservationists an edge
The pause in construction has allowed governments and environmentalists to get ahead of some of the coastal boom.
Coastal land boom fizzles
Investors lured east by the real estate boom are in a holding pattern: Once-coveted land won't sell, and some developers aren't building.
Intersection due for help -- but what kind?
With limited visibility and cars zooming over the speed limit, Jeanne Brown has a hard time turning onto Mount Carmel Church Road from Bennett Road as it is.
Triangle Triathlon to alter traffic flow
Drivers in Cary from 7 to 10 a.m. Sunday may be delayed because of the Triangle Triathlon. As many as 1,000 cyclists will be using the following roads:
Slower growth may cost Wake schools
Wake County's student growth is again slowing faster than expected, potentially reducing the schools' budget by millions of dollars and shrinking the size of the next bond referendum.
State puts cash behind toll roads
A long-term spending plan included in the new state budget will give the N.C. Turnpike Authority $25 million this year and, by 2010, $99 million a year to start building three toll roads.
Cary is ranked 5th in growth
After several years of restrained growth, this town just outside the gates of Research Triangle Park has zoomed back near the top of the charts, with new residents piling into freshly minted subdivisions.
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