Sig Hutchinson delivered the annual State of the County address Monday evening, starting the speech with one of the county’s most-repeated statistics: Wake is growing by 67 residents per day. Read More …
Wake Students Will Skip a Tobacco Survey
Wake County public middle and high school students will skip a statewide tobacco-use survey this year for the first time since 1999. And county commissioners, irate over of the loss of data about an important health risk, are calling school board members to a special meeting on the matter. Read More …
Mental Health System Is “Overwhelming, Complicated, and Messy.” Wake County Wants to Fix That
It’s easy to blame people who are dealing with mental illness. But the road to recovery is more often like a series of paths through a forest, sometimes connecting, often not touching, and too frequently leading the person needing help in the wrong direction. Read More …
A park or a quarry? RDU weighs two visions for 105 acres of its land.
BY RICHARD STRADLING The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority has received two offers to lease 105 acres of airport land near Umstead State Park: one from a conservation group that wants to preserve the land, and another from a stone company that wants to dig it up. Wake Stone Corp. already operates a quarry next to […]