Now Lake Wheeler Road is about to get an overhaul that will make it a better neighbor to the park and people who live nearby. Construction begins this summer and is expected to take two years.

A serious crash Friday night shut down Lake Wheeler Road in Wake County. The WRAL Breaking News Tracker was at the scene. According to a state trooper, the crash involved three cars.

Sometime before 11:40 p.m., a car traveling north on Lake Wheeler Road hit the man. A witness said a person was walking in the middle of road, not on a crosswalk.

The former Dorothea Dix psychiatric hospital has become a city park, and high-rise apartments are going up nearby. Yet the two-lane road between them hasn’t changed in decades. Now Lake Wheeler ...

Last summer, when the State Farmers Market began building a new driveway out to Lake Wheeler Road, it hoped to have it open in time for Thanksgiving. That didn’t happen. Six months later, the ...