Category Archives: Triangle/Local
Hegseth renames North Carolina military base Fort Roland L. Bragg and declares, 'Bragg is back!'
By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg a...
Feb 11, 2025
Flu season in the US is the most intense it's been in at least 15 years
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years. One indicator of flu activity is the percentage of d...
Feb 07, 2025
UNC and Duke Health will build North Carolina's first standalone children's hospital
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Two North Carolina-based university health systems plan to construct the state's first standalone children's hospital - an undertaking that its boosters said will change lives phy...
Jan 28, 2025
Democrats and voting groups say a bid to toss out North Carolina ballots is an attack on democracy
BY GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Copland Rudolph cast a ballot in the November election, just as she has for years, with her vote counting on a long list of North Carolina co...
Jan 26, 2025
Raleigh Police identify injured officer as First Class Officer M.A. Gillick
RALEIGH (WPTF) - The Raleigh Police Department has identified the officer injured in the line of duty as First Class Officer M.A. Gillick. According to an official statement, Officer Gillick remains i...
Jan 23, 2025
Wake County Democratic state lawmaker resigns after terminal cancer diagnosis
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A longtime Wake County Democratic state representative announced his resignation from the North Carolina General Assembly on Sunday. Rep. Joe John, who represented northwestern Wa...
Jan 20, 2025
Up to 4 in 10 people could develop dementia after 55. What you can do to lower your risk
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - About a million Americans a year are expected to develop dementia by 2060, roughly double today's toll, researchers reported Monday. That estima...
Jan 13, 2025
Smart bird feeders gain popularity and spark interest in bird-watching
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Marin Plank truly had no interest in birds when she gave her husband a camera-equipped bird feeder for his birthday. But by Christmas, she had beco...
Jan 07, 2025
Polar vortex keeps much of the US in its icy grip
By PATRICK WHITTLE and BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A huge swath of the U.S. was blasted with ice, snow and wind on Monday as the polar vortex that dipped south over the weekend ...
Jan 06, 2025
Farmers are still reeling months after Hurricane Helene ravaged crops across the South
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press LYONS, Ga. (AP) - Twisted equipment and snapped tree limbs still litter Chris Hopkins' Georgia farm more than two months after Hurricane Helene made its deadly march acr...
Dec 20, 2024