Purr Cup Cafe wants help to become Raleigh’s first cat cafe

Sarah Newton and Arthur Hailey, of Raleigh, plus Arthur’s daughter Birdie, are partnering with Meow House Cat Rescue to create a themed cafe where customers can come for coffee and to spend time with furry felines.
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Sir Walter under contract to be sold

Wake County

Sir Walter under contract to be sold

Video: The historic Sir Walter Hotel in downtown Raleigh is slated to be sold. The building now has 140 units for elderly, low income residents. Under the proposal, they will have to move out by 2020.

Sprouts Farmers Market grocery opens into Raleigh

Business

Sprouts Farmers Market grocery opens into Raleigh

Video: The newest addition to the grocery store landscape in Raleigh is Sprouts Farmers Market. The Arizona based chain features fresh organic produce at low prices in an open market atmosphere at their location on Falls of Neuse Road.

IKEA is coming to Cary

Business

IKEA is coming to Cary

VIDEO: IKEA is planning to build its first Triangle store at Cary Towne Center off Interstate 40. It would be the second North Carolina store, after one opened in Charlotte in 2009.

Lenovo promotes technology and art in Wake schools

Wake Ed

Lenovo promotes technology and art in Wake schools

Suzie Koonce, community partnership manager at Lenovo, talks about how volunteers were at East Millbrook Middle School and two other Raleigh schools on Monday promoting science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) learning. It's part of Lenovo's Global Week of Service.

SAS technology enables blind to ‘visualize’ graphs

Local

SAS technology enables blind to ‘visualize’ graphs

Ed Summers, senior manager of accessibility and applied assistive technology at SAS, discusses a new technology at SAS that allows the blind and visually impaired to understand graphs and charts using text descriptions, tables and sound.

Two ways Trump proposes to change America's health care

National Politics

Two ways Trump proposes to change America's health care

Republicans promised America during the 2016 election that they would repeal and replace Obamacare. Trump, during his joint address to Congress, laid out a series of proposals to do just that, including giving tax credits as incentives and allowing insurance plans to be sold over state lines.

UNC Rex opens new heart center

Health Care

UNC Rex opens new heart center

VIDEO: UNC Rex Health Care is opening a $235 million heart hospital in Raleigh, the North Carolina Heart & Vascular Hospital. The eight-story, 306,000 square foot facility has 114 patient rooms where 50 heart and vascular specialists will do heart bypasses, vascular surgeries and stent insertions.

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