Category Archives: Triangle/Local
Wake Tech health campus reaches key milestone
RALEIGH, N.C. (WPTF) - A major milestone has been reached for a major health care education facility in the Triangle. The final beam has been secured Thursday (Feb. 26) for Wake Tech's Perry Family Si...
Feb 26, 2026
CJ Poll: Whatley has clear lead in NC U.S. Senate race
RALEIGH, N.C. (WPTF) -- With the primary now only days away, a new Carolina Journal poll shows Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley with a clear advantage over his GOP rivals, but a major chunk...
Feb 26, 2026
Durham Police continue search for shooting suspect
DURHAM, N.C. (WPTF) - Durham police are providing more details as they search for a shooting suspect. On Tuesday, Feb. 17, a man was shot at the intersection of Globe Rd. and Page Rd. Witnesses report...
Feb 26, 2026
UNC Board of Governors approves first in-state tuition increase in nearly a decade
RALEIGH, N.C. (WPTF) - The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has approved a systemwide in-state tuition hike for the first time in nine years. Resident undergraduate tuition will rise by...
Feb 26, 2026
AI song generator startups Suno and Udio angered the music industry. Now they're hoping to join it
By MATT O'BRIEN and RODRIQUE NGOWI Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Suno CEO Mikey Shulman pulls up a chair to the recording studio desk where a research scientist at his artificial intelligen...
Feb 25, 2026
Citizen journalists, citizen sleuths helping to unravel the tangle of Epstein documents
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer When sifting through the seemingly endless collection of documents in the Epstein files gets to be too much and Ellie Leonard needs a break, she takes a walk outside. T...
Feb 23, 2026
US House campaigns are underway. Yet a redistricting battle triggered by Trump rages in some states
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Candidates are campaigning and voting is underway in some primaries. Yet a national battle to redraw U.S. House districts for partisan advantage is still raging in so...
Feb 20, 2026
No clear path to ending the partial government shutdown as lawmakers dig in over DHS oversight
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Lawmakers and the White House offered no signs of compromise Sunday in their battle over oversight of federal immigration officers that h...
Feb 15, 2026
Judge sentences teen to life without parole for North Carolina mass shooting that killed 5
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A judge sentenced an 18-year-old who acknowledged killing five people in a North Carolina mass shooting to life in prison without parole Frid...
Feb 13, 2026
At Fort Bragg, Trump says Maduro raid showed 'full military might' of US and means 'we are feared'
By WILL WEISSERT and ALLEN G. BREED Associated Press FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - President Donald Trump celebrated the special forces members who ousted Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro, saying last mon...
Feb 13, 2026