Triangle News

The inaugural Raleigh Wide Open Festival has released its initial lineup of performers. The festival takes place in downtown Raleigh on October 3rd and 4th.

Cannonball Music Hall recently opened at Raleigh Iron Works. It's both a music venue and practice space designed to help musicians and bands who are just getting started.

Marc Wyatt, director of Welcome House Raleigh, a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, received a call recently from the North Carolina field office of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants asking if he could help furnish two apartments for three newly arrived refugees, among the 59 who arrived in the U.S. last week from South Africa.

The footage of the incident was released by a court order following a lawsuit from several news organizations including WUNC seeking the release of the videos.

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to remove legal protections for roughly 350,000 Venezuelans living in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.

Last week, scientists launched plastic water bottles outfitted with GPS systems into two Raleigh creeks to research the movement of waste in urban waterways. The study is part of North Carolina Sea Grant, a project funded by the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA).

The House's budget makes several moves to improve teacher pay that aren't in the Senate's proposal, with big raises for starting teachers and restoring "master's pay."

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.

A public hearing held at the airport in January featured more than 40 speakers, all of whom lambasted the proposed development.

The Walton Farm is now under a conservation easement — meaning the 40-acre undeveloped land is protected for future generations.

The Genentech biotechnology plant will create more than 400 jobs.

Millie Dunn Veasey was a member of the 6888th Battalion. She was honored during a renaming ceremony of the post office on Brentwood Road at her home church, St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh.