The chances of a controversial jail deportation program shutting down appear to be remote, even though it has been placed on a list of possible cuts in the Wake County budget.

The City Council voted Tuesday to refer a resolution establishing an interim percent-for-art program to the city's Arts Commission for review.

The city has set up telephone directory recycling bins at four locations.

Yellow police tape was wrapped around the slender, curving trunks of the river birch trees Tuesday, protecting the spot where Joshua Jermaine Bryant was fatally shot.

One of the longest-running development sagas in downtown Raleigh came to an end Tuesday, as the City Council terminated its contract with a local developer.

About 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the social networking Web site MySpace, company and law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

Triangle Briefs: Wake Commissioners voted 7-0 Monday to cut the budgets of county departments to offset depleted tax and fee revenues as a result of the nation's economic downturn.

Triangle Briefs: The Raleigh City Council will receive a report today that recommends creating a three-tier rate structure for residential water customers.

It was just 30 minutes after midnight Saturday when Lenora Tickle was awakened by her husband's screams ringing through their South Cary home like a motorcycle without a muffler.

A Super Bowl soiree Sunday was the last time dogs will be allowed to frolic at the feet of their dining owners at Lenny's Hideaway in Raleigh.

Larry Whitfield was on foot, his getaway car wrecked, his rookie attempt at robbing a bank thwarted by a set of locked doors, according to detectives.

Drivers should expect delays this week at one Cary intersection.

A majority of Wake commissioners say they won't raise property taxes for 2010, but shrinking sales tax revenues and continued growth in student enrollment are likely to test that goal.

A man charged with causing a fiery five-vehicle accident Monday on Interstate 40 cannot get out of jail until his immigration status is clarified.

A majority of Wake commissioners agreed Friday that they would not raise property taxes for 2010.

Eyes wet with tears, Joe Sciolino dished out his final snap bean, slathered his last hamburger steak and topped his 30-year gastronomic career with a few more pastramis on pumpernickel.

Three of the Triangle's top municipal leaders say the current recession will likely usher in an era of smaller local government.

Town and Wake County schools leaders will meet Monday to try to resolve an impasse over road improvements near Panther Creek High School. The dispute has blocked the use of 22 modular classrooms.

The town has $10 million in occupancy-tax money headed its way -- and new ideas on how to spend it.

Long before there was a Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, four nuns and a priest from Newburgh, N.Y., came to North Carolina to open a school for Catholic children.

Rashon A. Martine's decision to take a knife to a fistfight carried a heavy price Friday, when Martine learned he'll be spending the next four to five years in prison for killing a friend.

Raleigh-Durham International Airport might temporarily close one of its two passenger terminals to save money in 2011, if demand for air travel continues in a slump that started last year.