Oct. 28: 8 items from Raleigh's city hall, police, schools and county, each linked to the official source.
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Public safety
- 759 incidents reported in Raleigh in the week to Oct. 28, 2026 Raleigh Police Department incidents (Open Data Raleigh) lists 759 incident reports dated Oct. 22, 2026 to Oct. 28, 2026. Most common: Miscellaneous/All Other Non-Offenses (111), As (Raleigh Police Department incidents (Open Data Raleigh))
City Hall
- Join City IT for 2026 GIS Day (City of Raleigh)
County
Schools
- Help keep our students safe this Halloween (Wake County Public School System)
Around town
- NC State’s Athletic Traditions Over the course of almost a century and a half, NC State fans have handed down pregame and game-day traditions that create excitement and enhance the experience at athletics contes (NC State University)
- Chornobyl Dog Population Shows Genetic Signatures of Directional Selection The latest research on the wild population of dogs in Chornobyl reveals that the genetic differences between these dogs and other similarly isolated dog populations is likely evide (NC State University)
- Web of Wonders: Meet the Spiders of North Carolina From the black widow to the jumping spider, arachnids have a bit of a reputation. But with more than 1,000 species of spiders in North Carolina, these eight-legged creepy-crawlies (NC State University)
- NC State Leads $1.79M NSF Project to Uncover How ‘Hydroclimatic Whiplash’ Fuels Appalachian Wildfires Researchers are working to determine whether rapid shifts between extremely wet and extremely dry weather conditions increase wildfire risk in the Blue Ridge Ecoregion of the south (NC State University) The Daily Debrief is a daily digest of what Raleigh’s public bodies published, linked to the original. Have something for tomorrow’s Notes? Send a news tip.
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