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As summer is underway, the NC Farm Bureau is advocating for farm vehicle safety on roads to cut down on accidents and deaths.
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The cost of building roads is skyrocketing, and it’s leading to big delays for highway expansions in North Carolina. That’s prompting the state Department of Transportation to consider tolling to pay for the projects — but that approach could face opposition in the state legislature.
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The UNC Health and Duke Health systems are partnering together to create North Carolina’s Children’s Health campus.
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Duke Health says the Cary facility will serve a quickly growing part of Wake County with at least 40 new hospital beds in the coming years.
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Every week until Labor Day weekend, the Wake Water Quality Lab is taking samples from recreational areas across the county to check for the levels of E. coli and enterococcus bacteria.
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A Wake County judge is ordering the release of State Highway Patrol recordings related to the death of Tyrone Mason, a 31-year-old Black man who died in a single-vehicle crash in the early hours of Oct. 7 last year.
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A public hearing held at the airport in January featured more than 40 speakers, all of whom lambasted the proposed development.
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The Walton Farm is now under a conservation easement — meaning the 40-acre undeveloped land is protected for future generations.
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The two top administrators of the fast-growing Wake County town of Zebulon resigned in the same week, as the town seeks to resolve a legal battle with a housing developer whose plans were rejected by Zebulon commissioners.
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A committee of the Wake County Public Schools Board of Education approved a draft policy on Tuesday that would limit student cellphone use during the school day. The discussion comes as lawmakers in the North Carolina General Assembly are working on a possible statewide ban.