Community News in Raleigh

The City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to allow Hillsborough Street Partners, LLC to move forward with their plan to erect a 25-storey mixed-use tower on the 300 block of Hillsborough St. 

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In the light, everybody needs the light.

Gusts of arctic wind swept down Fayetteville St. Saturday morning.  Despite the bitter cold, a good-sized crowd lined the street with blankets and camp chairs and watched over two and a half hours of parade performers pass beneath our growing downtown skyline. 

CQ Press released its 15th edition of City Crime Rankings. Good news for Raleigh.

The City of Raleigh is planning a new bus line that will provide service in a loop around the Downtown and Glenwood South areas in 2009.  A public forum will be held today at 3:30pm to discuss the new route.