Your City, Your News
January 16, 2025
By Brian Murphy, WRAL The stadium home of the NC Courage will have a new name next season: First Horizon Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park. First Horizon Bank purchased the naming rights to the Cary facility, which is also home to North Carolina FC and hosted the men’s and women’s NCAA College Cup earlier this
READ MORE
People across the state have been anxiously awaiting their first look at proposed new conferences for the 2025-2029 N.C. High School Athletic Association realignment. There’s a lot of intrigue and we’ve been talking about it for years now. The NCHSAA will expand to eight classifications for the first time. There was discussion about whether or
READ MORE
For each week of the 2024 high school football season, HighSchoolOT will release the Starting 22. It lists the best performances from every position across North Carolina. Coaches should send in performance nominations to [email protected] for consideration each week. Now that we are in the playoffs, players can receive a repeat selection if they made
READ MORE
By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer Former North Carolina head coach Mack Brown is the winner of the “Reds” Bagnell Award. Brown is due to receive the award on March 14, 2025, at the 88th Maxwell Awards at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. The Bagnell Award is presented each year to
READ MORE
Two endangered whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off Massachusetts, and one is likely to die from its injuries, the federal government said. They are North Atlantic right whales, which number less than 400 and face existential threats from entanglement in gear and collisions with ships. An aerial survey found the whales swimming
READ MORE
XIAMEN, China (AP) — The world’s largest maker of batteries for electric vehicles said Wednesday it will get into battery swapping in China in a big way starting next year. The idea behind battery swapping is to refuel quickly, similar to filling a conventional car with gas. Instead of waiting for the batteries to recharge,
READ MORE
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association has released the first draft of conferences for the 2025-2029 realignment period. For the first time in its extensive history, the NCHSAA will have member schools divided into eight classifications. The largest class, 8A, will have the 32 largest schools in the state by population. The 1A through
READ MORE
KAIPING, China (AP) — Underneath a granite hill in southern China, a massive detector is nearly complete that will sniff out the mysterious ghost particles lurking around us. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory will soon begin the difficult task of spotting neutrinos: tiny cosmic particles with a mind-bogglingly small mass. The detector is one of
READ MORE
CARY, N.C. — Behind 25 points from Jasmine Nivar, the No. 13 Apex Friendship girls basketball team won their third in a row with a 55-45 victory at Southwest Wake Athletic Conference foe Green Hope on Tuesday. Apex Friendship (7-1, 3-0) already owns a big head-to-head win over No. 14 Seaforth and its only loss
READ MORE
When Bernard Jones Jr. and his wife, Doris, built their dream home, they didn’t hold back. A grotto swimming pool with a waterfall for hot summer days. A home theater for cozy winter nights. A fruit orchard to harvest in fall. And a vast underground bunker in case disaster strikes. “The world’s not becoming a
READ MORE