Holly Springs

Emma Breslin and her mother, Danielle, were thinking of spending Aug. 28 at the Scholastic Book Fair. Instead, they went to a spelling bee - and came away with a $150 Scholastic gift card and a cha...

Residents can continue to use basketball goals, hockey nets and other recreational equipment in town streets after a decision by the Town Council.

Police are responding to a report from the Sunset Oaks neighborhood Friday afternoon.

A Wake County school board committee charged with improving the performance of low-income students gave a warm response Thursday to an advocacy group's recommendations for easing the district's str...

Holly Springs officials on Tuesday decided not to issue new rules limiting the use of basketball goals, hockey nets and other recreational equipment in town streets.

The town, which currently doesn't regulate such equipment, has been looking into the issue since last month, when a resident complained about safety.

Eight more Wake County schools - including several in western Wake - have been added to Newsweek's 2010 list of the top U.S. public high schools.

Christina Rudd teaches mathematics at Cary High School and was named the school's teacher of the year for 2010. Rudd has taught at Cary High for 12 years and has served as the school's junior varsi...

Ruby Mann has lived in New Hill since she was born 73 years ago. She remembers playing in the creek and breathing in the clean air in the field behind her house on Garris Road.

Volunteers for the Holly Springs Food Cupboard filled nearly two vans with a total of 711 pounds of food - enough to serve 14 families for a month - during the group's first food drive on July 10 a...

A Wake County prosecutor has decided to seek no charges in the death of a 29-year-old man shot by his father.

This fast-growing town, which has been hoping for a hospital, will get a surgery center instead.

Cary

Juliet Keith held onto the wish that she could meet the well-dressed man in the black-and-white postcard photo.

A brief tour of the Pehr boys' home might foretell success at an engineering challenge - tens of thousands of Legos fill boxes and shelves in various forms, along with evidence of hobbies such as o...

Four western Wake County towns are a step closer to building a $327 million regional wastewater treatment plant in New Hill, an unincorporated community that has fought the plant for years.

I am sorry to see that some citizens view the YourLetters section as their opportunity to show their superiority by belittling others ["Interview was a waste of space," July 11].

Holly Springs is taking steps to prepare for the growth that will come when N.C. 540 passes through the town.

A Cary father is in the Wake County jail this morning after police said he physically abused his six-week-old infant.

Cary