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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.

Updated: Jul. 23, 2008 5:28 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jul. 23, 2008 1:24 AM | Full story

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Grubb Properties has withdrawn its controversial plan to replace the Glen Lennox apartments and shopping center, one of the state's oldest.

Updated: Jul. 23, 2008 1:24 AM | Full story

Keen to be green, but how to do it?

Meeting draws employers to talk about environment.

Updated: Jul. 23, 2008 1:24 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jul. 22, 2008 5:04 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jul. 17, 2008 6:55 AM | Full story

'Gotcha!' cams give Cary little

Road Worrier:Only about 13 cents of every dollar of Cary's red-light camera money comes back home.

Updated: Jul. 15, 2008 5:31 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jul. 14, 2008 5:51 AM | Full story

Lull gives conservationists an edge

The pause in construction has allowed governments and environmentalists to get ahead of some of the coastal boom.

Updated: Jul. 13, 2008 1:01 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jul. 13, 2008 4:49 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jul. 12, 2008 5:02 AM | Full story

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:

Updated: Jul. 12, 2008 2:26 AM | Full story

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.

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

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.

Updated: Jul. 10, 2008 5:22 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jul. 10, 2008 4:58 AM | Full story

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