Park power! Dix Park received the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Outstanding Achievements in Public Spaces, recognizing the Raleigh destination as a world-class public space.
All aboard. The S-Line project connecting Raleigh to Richmond received $550 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to build the first leg of the high-speed passenger rail.
Raleigh is officially a boomtown. LendingTree ranked Oak City No. 2 hot spot where people are “moving, building and starting businesses” out of 50 large metro areas across the country.
Goodbye steep gas prices? Gov. Josh Stein signed a law suspending NC’s 41-cents-per-gallon gas tax until Nov. 30 in an effort to lower prices at the pump.
Buc-ee’s is doubling down on NC, with a second planned store in Rocky Mount near NC Highway 4 and I-95. The first NC location is underway in Mebane.
More homes, fewer buyers. Raleigh—and the greater Triangle area—is entering a rare buyer’s market after sale prices have dropped 6.2% compared with this time last year.
NC’ers clearly love a good gamble. The latest numbers show sports betting in NC was up ~$200 million in July over the previous year.
AI coming for your job? A new survey found 68% of U.S. college students fear AI would make it harder for them to find a job, while 22% have changed their major to avoid just that.
The City of Oaks has lost another oak tree. A nearly 100-year-old willow oak was recently removed from Nash Square amid plans to potentially redesign the DTR park.
NC schools are suffering. Nearly 75% of school districts report they lack a sustainable funding source to maintain student devices like computers.
As of August, executive tariffs have cost NC’ers ~$8.8 billion since January 2025—or $1,967 per household—the 13th-highest total across the U.S.
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