By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – In an era where local media are vying for eyeballs online as well as in traditional media like print or television, one locally owned TV station seems to be hitting the ball out of the park in terms of online viewership. Locally owned CBS…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – A giant hole in the middle of the Cameron Village shopping center in downtown Raleigh will become a large mixed used development when construction work is completed. An aged parking deck and gas station were torn down last year to make way for the…
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – RTI International, a non-profit research company headquartered in RTP, says it will be hiring over 400 part-time and full time workers for one of its call centers. RTI performs clinical, medical, and other research services for governments, research universities, and private firms in dozens of countries…
By Ariella Monti, The Raleigh Public Record, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram With Permission RALEIGH – Raleigh City Councilors Tuesday voted to move forward with negotiations to put a new hotel downtown, but they want to make sure the design fits in the space. Developers want to build Residence Inn-Marriott…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – A whimsical and fantastic mural featuring a dragon and other flying creatures can now be seen rising above downtown Raleigh on a building several stories high on Hargett Street. The mural is appropriately titled “The Fantastic Sky Race” and is the brainchild of artists…
By Doug Bernard, Voice Of America, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – Perhaps they should have expected this. Years ago, the founders of Google adopted as their semi-official motto the phrase “Don’t Be Evil.” And that, for Google’s critics, has been the gift that keeps on giving. Every…
By The Open Globe, Reprinted With Permission By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – Several major US politicians who had supported the anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA publicly stated on last week that they no longer back the legislation, as an estimated 7,000 websites were shuttered in protest of the…
By Elliott West, City Editor, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – North Carolina’s first modern toll road is now open for business and is collecting tolls. The Triangle Expressway, which is still under construction, has opened the portion that connects the Research Triangle Park area with Highway 55. The toll road…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – WRAL-TV, flagship station of Raleigh-based media company Capitol Broadcasting, has announced that its current director of station operations, Jim Rothschild, will become the CBS affiliate’s new station manager. WRAL-TV broadcasts as Channel 5 in the top 30 Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville market here in the Triangle. “Jim…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – One of Raleigh’s busiest nightlife districts downtown Raleigh consisting of a long stretch of Glenwood Avenue often called “Glenwood South” will finally receive its own hotel in the middle of all of the action when a new Hampton Inn and Suites is completed later this year.…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Triangle Regional Film Commission says that the filming of motion pictures in North Carolina was up in 2011 thanks to incentives offered by the State of North Carolina and the Triangle got to enjoy some of the fruits of that success. According to…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The City of Raleigh announced today during a press conference hosted by Mayor Nancy McFarlane that Red Hat will move its global headquarters from NC State University’s Centennial Campus to the old Progress Energy building next to the RBC Bank Tower in downtown Raleigh. …
Falls Lake Dam in north Raleigh may be the future site of a hydroelectric dam. Photo: Google Maps which has information from USGS. By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – On Tuesday, January 3rd, the City of Raleigh moved forward with more preliminary steps towards building a hydroelectric power plant at…
Photo courtesy of Gov. Perdue for Governor campaign. By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue, newly elected Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane and North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall will be speaking in January at a women’s business luncheon sponsored by the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.…
