A civil rights attorney who helped lay the groundwork for the historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling that declared ...

Janet Cowell, a former state treasurer and longtime political player in Raleigh, will be the city's next mayor, taking over the position from outgoing Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin.

The newly elected leader of the nation’s ‘best-performing’ big city says officials are ‘always trying to up the game,’ but ...

Raleigh Mayor-elect Janet Cowell is about to have a Rip Van Winkle moment. Like the figure of lore who fell asleep for 20 years, Cowell is coming back to the Raleigh City Council two decades after ...

Mayor-elect Janet Cowell is preparing to hit the ground running after she is sworn in as Raleigh’s mayor on December 2nd. Part of that preparation has included speaking with Governor-elect Josh ...

A recent Milken Report has ranked Raleigh among the top-performing large cities in the nation, highlighting its ongoing ...

Janet Cowell took her oath of office Monday night in a ceremony with the seven other council members, including newcomer Mitchell Silver, a former Raleigh planning director who was elected in ...

The shooter, later identified as George Colom Jr., eventually died from his injuries after being taken to the hospital in ...

Multiple communities in North and South Carolina rate highly in a new analysis of America's best-performing cities.

And those are all good things. But it puts pressure on affordability, housing prices, et cetera," said Mayor Janet Cowell. That report noted that "Raleigh's ability to maintain a balance between ...

Hall succeeds Janet Cowell, now Raleigh’s mayor, who resigned from the position before the election. He was the city manager of Raleigh from 2013 to 2020, when he retired. The search for a new ...

City of Raleigh swears in new mayor, city council members Longtime mayor of Benson dies following recent cancer diagnosis Mayor-elect Janet Cowell lays out vision for future of Raleigh Janet ...