The departure of Peak Fitness from the Triangle has been less than smooth, and as the gym chain closes facilities in the area, many members are scrambling for refunds, answers and resolution that may not come.

A Raleigh woman was arrested Wednesday on charges related to allegations of improper conduct with children involving sex acts and illegal drugs.

Police in Wake Forest have arrested a Raleigh man on charges of having sex with an underage girl.

A Wake County elementary school teacher was arrested Wednesday on charges of molesting a student.

Real Deals:Bloomsbury Estates perches high over downtown Raleigh, a brick edifice so imposing that it has garnered over-the-top comparisons to Cinderella's Castle at Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

It looks like blob of wriggling pudding staring out through a single, puckered eye. You can see it caught on camera, clinging to the concrete pipes below Raleigh's Cameron Village: the Sewer Monster.

After an eventful weekend, Bryce Love was back in classes Monday at Heritage Middle School in northeast Wake County.

Raleigh and Cary were among the 10 fastest-growing cities in the nation last year, a new census release shows.

Gavin Hawk "pretty much floored it" when his sport-utility vehicle struck a moped on Interstate 40, speeding away from the scene at up to 90 mph and leaving Ian "Spyk" Quick dead on the highway, a Wake County prosecutor said Tuesday.

Today marks the start of the new fiscal year for local governments in the Triangle, which means new or higher fees go into effect for a variety of services.

The $80 million Ponzi scheme that Raleigh businessman William Wise is accused of running flourished on a sunny Caribbean island nation and, according to bilked investors and other critics, was enabled by highly placed leaders there.

For three decades, James Arthur was perfectly pleased to send an annual donation to N.C. State, the university that granted him three degrees.

Patsy Eason Barefoot chatted with her neighbor, Diana Whitley, about two weeks ago while working out in the fitness center at Montecito Apartments, where both women lived.

The first time Russell Buxton III brought his wife, JoAnn, to the thousand or so acres that would one day be Cary's Lochmere development, he carried a metal detector in his hand.

Thirteen N.C. State graphic design students tackled a big issue for a spring-semester project. They drew detailed designs to turn the vast campus of Dorothea Dix Hospital into an environmentally friendly park.

Two men are in the Wake County jail in lieu of $500,000 bail each after five residents of a Raleigh townhouse, including two children, were robbed.

Katherine Southard, a woman who relearned how to dance after having surgery for curvature of the spine, was crowned Miss North Carolina on Saturday night.

Miss Raleigh, Katherine Southard, was crowned Saturday night during a ceremony in Raleigh. Southard, who is from Matthews but won the open Miss Raleigh contest, suffered from scoliosis, which causes abnormal curvature of the spine.

The Raleigh man charged last week with threatening to kill numerous local, state and federal government officials and their relatives has been charged with a 30th felony count for threatening in March to kill Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht.

Last week, Sheila Sanders celebrated five years of redemption -- five years since she smoked a crack rock, five years since she turned a trick.

Pens and paper are on the most-wanted list at the Wake County courthouse.

A 41-year-old man remained in jail Thursday after police charged him with taking photos of a nude 12-year-old girl who was hiding in his sport utility vehicle, authorities reported.