Lake Raleigh Makes Comeback
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By David Bracken, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 17--RALEIGH -- When John Gehringer caught a 7-inch bluegill in Lake Raleigh on Saturday morning, it was a long time coming.   Not for 8-year-old John, a savvy fisherman used to such triumphs, but for the lake.
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It may have brought some luster to the riverfront when it was built a half century ago, but today the Chicago Sun-Times building looks like it belongs there about as much as a barge at a yacht club.
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Matt Doherty is waiting for his moment. The former North Carolina basketball coach is enjoying work as a broadcaster and spending time with small business ventures, but he admits it's getting harder to ignore the pull of the sidelines. Nearly two years after he went from one of the nation's hottest young coaches to a castoff, Doherty wants to coach ...
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 17--Today's a special day designated to take dad fishing. After a lifetime of giving and guarding, he's earned recognition.
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Back Bay, one day, may be a little fresher body of water, thanks to the efforts of Susan Wenzel and many volunteers,  On a recent Saturday, 800 or so flowers, shrubs and trees were planted in a 1,200-foot-long buffer along a lake in South Shore Estates in the Red Mill area.
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Pete Fountain will return to performing at a casino on the Mississippi Gulf Coast this fall.
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A turn of Peter Heckel's tap Tuesday morning did nothing. Heckel, a decades-long resident of North Raleigh, woke up to no water. A record-breaking weekend of Triangle water use had left the private water system that provides Heckel's home with pressure too low.
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A new span across the copper-colored St. Louis Bay is a hopeful link to the return of better days.
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A new dining opportunity has emerged in the Port Washington/Manhasset community with the renovation and rejuvenation of a well-known dining location on Port Washington Boulevard.
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By Peter Hull, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 9--The expansion of the Port of Charleston appears to be back on  course.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 5--North Carolina's popularity as a place to live -- a popularity that is drawing new residents in droves -- also means more and more land being eaten up for development.
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For the first time since a rape scandal led to last season's premature ending, the Duke lacrosse team returns to the practice field.
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By Jeri Krentz, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 24--Christian Wurtz steadies himself at the bow as his boat idles near a Lake Norman shore. There's a chill in the air; the gray sky looks smudged.   He chooses a spinning rod, already baited, and casts toward the riprap.
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 8--For years, Raleigh's leftovers have been dumped on the northern end of the Dorothea Dix hospital campus.   But the city has turned that trash into treasure.
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By TODD RICHMOND LAKE DELTON, Wis. - In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.
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DURHAM, N.C. -- The old pictures and shelves are gone, leaving only a fresh coat of paint. Coach John Danowski figured his office was a good place to start the makeover of the Duke men's lacrosse program.
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By Jack Betts, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 11--RALEIGH -- Never let it be said that North Carolina doesn't embrace big business with a gusto normally reserved for the safe return of a war hero or a NASCAR winner just back from Daytona.