Zachery Eanes

Ryan Speckman's day begins around 6am, when he starts firing calls and texts to fishermen up and down the North Carolina coast — What did you reel in?

🏢 Apartment vacancies are inching up across the Triangle, as thousands of new units are added to the market and rents declined in the second half of 2023. (Triangle Business Journal 🔒)

Long before Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon took up the cause , a few friends were daydreaming at a bar in 2019 about Raleigh landing a Major League Baseball expansion team.

UNC-Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees voted on Monday to move $2.3 million from funding diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the university and instead put it toward public safety efforts, WUNC reported

What to expect: The bar — named after the North Carolina authors Thomas Wolfe and O. Henry's real name William Sydney Porter — has added about 3,000 square feet to its space on Morgan Street.

✈️ The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed at RDU last month was attempting to continue flying after an aborted landing when the plane's engine stalled and it fell 100 feet to the ground, according to a preliminary report. (News & Observer 🔒)

Silver was an influential city planner in Raleigh for nearly a decade, before leaving the city in 2014 to run New York City's parks department.

, a restaurant that features duckpin bowling, a menu curated by a Top Chef contestant and an extensive bar list, will open in the Raleigh Iron Works development this weekend, its operator Robert Thompson says.

The Raleigh City Council earlier this month approved the change to four-year, staggered terms starting in 2026. The council made the move without putting it before voters as a referendum.

La Farm, which opened in Cary in 1999, said it will open locations in downtown Raleigh as well as North Raleigh.