Raleigh should hit 90°F Thursday before afternoon storm chances return. The heat builds into the mid-90s next week, with a heat index near 103°F Friday.

A Riegelwood woman allegedly reached 100 mph through an NC-87 work zone while fleeing deputies in a stolen Malibu.

A man was shot multiple times late Monday on Chapel Hill Road in Durham and is expected to recover. Police have not identified a suspect.

Nine people, including four teenagers, were injured in a targeted shooting at a Greensboro banquet hall. Two men were taken into custody, and city leaders are discussing a possible curfew.

Raleigh starts the week muggy and mostly cloudy, with afternoon storms Monday and a wetter Tuesday that could bring isolated flooding. More upper-80s heat follows later in the week.

Underwater drones and multiple Wake County fire departments joined a Raleigh lake search after a possible missing-person report.

A Creedmoor woman is charged with murder after a 27-year-old man was found shot to death inside a home. Police say the investigation remains active.

Durham is sorting through household trash to find out what’s recyclable, what’s contamination and how much landfill space could be saved.

Shell casings and shattered windows marked an overnight investigation near Old Oxford Road, where authorities had not confirmed a shooting victim or arrest.

A Raleigh woman turned a 50-cent digital lottery play into a $379,423 jackpot. After taxes, she plans to buy a home, invest and help people experiencing homelessness.

The Triangle's office market is thawing, but the recovery is favoring Raleigh's best-located buildings over a broad comeback.

A two‑line budget change removed North Carolina's decades‑old traffic‑stop reporting law, wiping out the statewide dataset researchers used to document racial disparities.

Severe storms knocked out power to roughly 13,000 Wake County customers at the peak. Outages stretched across a broad swath of the Raleigh area.