Have you noticed an unusual smell or flavor in your tap water over the past few days?

What's wrong with Raleigh tap water? Algae bloom at Falls Lake behind the smell, color

'Earthy and musty:' Here's why your tap water may taste strange this weekend in Raleigh

Athens Drive Magnet High School and Conn Magnet Elementary School won national awards Saturday at the Magnet Schools of America's annual conference.

Top two magnet schools in the US are in Wake County

Athens Drive High School

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Buc-ee's has come to be a destination of its own for travelers seeking a different kind of adventure. But why?

The buc stops here: Buc-ee's the 'Disney World of gas stations' for some, but NC's first location poses real concerns

WRAL consumer reporter Keely Arthur at Buc-ee's 

The day after Thanksgiving is the time to shop. A small country store in Perquimans County has been around for years and is known for its old-fashioned candy and meat.

<p>YOU CAN WATCH ON FOX 50 KICKOFF WILL BE AT 01:00PM. YOU KNOW, IT'S THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING. IT'S PRETTY MUCH TIME TO SHOP. IT IS SO TIME TO SHOP. OUR TAR HEEL TRAVELER KNOWS A GOOD COUNTRY STORE WITH NOT YOUR EVERYDAY ITEMS. TONIGHT WE FIND SCOTT MASON NORTHEAST AT LADEN'S IN BELVEDERE. &gt;&gt; LADEN'S COUNTRY STORE IS NOT A SUPERMARKET. WELL, IT IS THAT, TOO, BUT IT'S A SUPER DOING GOOD PERSON FOR THE REUNION WAS WHAT PEOPLE GO FOR THE WOODEN FLOOR, THE BUTCHER OLD-FASHIONED BUSH IS A LOST ART. ME HANGING ON THE WALL. &gt;&gt; THE WAY WE STILL HEAR OUR OWN, THE CRANK THEIR OWN SAUSAGE. SHE WILL COME A LONG WAYS TO GO SHOPPING HERE. THEY COME TO BELL THE D A LITTLE COMMUNITY IN PERQUIMANS COUNTY. NICE LITTLE TOWN. &gt;&gt; WITH AN OLD TIME THE STORM STARTED IN 18 60. HIS DAD BOUGHT IT IN 1951. 0, PLAYING TEST. THAT RAN IT FOR YEARS. AND NOW HIS SON, CHARLIE DOES SWITCH TO USING THE SAME SMOKEHOUSE. MY GRANDDAD STARTER WAS IN THE 50'S THE SMOKEHOUSE MEAT AND THEY'RE HANGING RIGHT NOW. WE JUST WATCHED AND PEPPER SLABS OF BACON WILL BECOME THE STORY OF THE PASS QUICKLY. THAT'S WHAT THEY CALL AND IS HANGING OUT TO DRY. THAT SYSTEM OCCASION AT THE BOTTOM END OF THE STELLAR STUFFED WITH SAUSAGE, READY TO BOIL AND THEN THE NEXT MORNING NOTICE TAKE IT IN AND TAKEN. I THINK THE SLICE IT. &gt;&gt; AND IT'S ALL IN THE FRYING PAN AND THAT'S YOUR SAUSAGE, PATTY, FOR BREAKFAST. IT'S SORT OF A THROWBACK IN TIME. IT IS. &gt;&gt; THE STORY. IT'S A GREAT LITTLE PLACE, BUT LOTS OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS THAT COME IN. THEY MIGHT SHOP FOR GROCERIES. CANDY, 7 COVERED PEANUTS IN THE HOT ROCKS IN THE PEACH BUDS. ALTHOUGH TIME IS STUFF THAT THEY DON'T SEE EVERYWHERE ANYMORE. THE SELL LOT OF HOPE TO CHANGE. YES, ABSOLUTELY. I'M CHEESE COMES ALL THE WAY OUT OF WISCONSIN AND THEN THERE IS THE MEAT AND THE MEAT PLAYS FOR FAMILIES BUYING IN BALL. WHAT DO YOU WRITE THE PLANS ON JUST A PIECE OF BUTCHER PAPER. WE ALL ARE SIGNS ARE STILL HANDWRITTEN A MARKER AT THE SUMMIT TO PAY FOR THIS. FANTASTIC. IT'S A PIECE OF AMERICANA LADEN'S COUNTRY STORE, ONE OF THE FEW PLACES HASN'T CHANGED. &gt;&gt; SO WHAT'S TO COME TO COMING BACK? &gt;&gt; LEIGHTON'S COUNTRY STORE IS OPEN EVERY DAY BUT SUNDAY AND IT'S TUCKED IN THE NORTHEAST</p>

Tar Heel Traveler: Layden's Supermarket

Tar Heel Traveler: Layden's Store

Wawa, the popular Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain with locations across the northeast and in Florida is finally coming to roost in North Carolina.

8 Wawa convenience stores to open in eastern NC in 2024

Wawa store prototype exterior

A century-old convenience store has been in a family for generations. Today, the Tar Heel Traveler takes a trip to the Grocery Barn in Sampson County

START TO MOVE OUT. A BIT OF RAIN FALLING IN OUR AREA WILL TALK ABOUT THAT COMING UP AT 6 O'CLOCK. MEANTIME, OUR TAR HEEL TRAVELER LOVES A COUNTRY STORE, ESPECIALLY ONE THAT'S BEEN IN THE SAME FAMILY FOR 5 GENERATIONS. TONIGHT WE FIND SCOTT NATION NEAR THE COUNTY LINE JUST INSIDE SAMPSON COUNTY AT A POPULAR CONVENIENCE STORE AND EATING SPOT. >> AND WE'RE INGO NEAR GODWIN IN SAMPSON COUNTY, CLOSE TO CUMBERLAND COUNTY. AND THERE IS ONE PLACE AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL. >> WHAT IS THE CENTER OF THE STORM? HEAT AND CHICKEN SOUND FAMOUS CHICKEN SOUND. WE MAKE IT WITH LOVING HE GET. >> IT'S A SECRET RECIPE WITH A VERY WELL WITH THE CHICKEN SAID WE HAVE PEOPLE COMING FROM ALL OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE COMING FROM ALL OVER TO ALTMAN'S GROCERY BARN AND GRILL IN GOD. I THINK HISTORY IS EXTREMELY INTERESTING. WE KNOW GO BACK AND I THINK COUNTRY STORE IT STOOD FOR A LONG TIME. WE HAD ACTUALLY ADD ON TO THE FLOOR WAS JUST GOING FALLING ONE DAY AND WE KNEW IT. THAT BUILDING REMAIN HERE UNTIL 2001. THAT'S WHEN THIS BUILDING REPLACE THE OLD ONE SAME LOCATION. >> SAME FAMILY. 5 GENERATIONS OF PLANNING. MY BROTHER NOT HAVE HAVE OPERATED A STORE AT THIS PROFIT. >> WE'RE BACK A LONG TIME. VERY FORTUNATE TO BE INVOLVED IN A PLEASING YOU PLEASE IS A SAD ALTMAN'S GROCERY BILL AND SOME WONDERFUL COMMUNITY. LOTS OF GOOD PEOPLE LOTS OF GOOD PIZZA. THE WONDERFUL PEPPER ROAD, OF COURSE, IS TO WRECK FUSS TO WHEN ITS TIME. THAT'S WHEN THE CROWD TO THIS COMMUNITY, AS IS ALWAYS SUPPORTED THIS BUSINESS AND OUR FAMILY AND A NUMBER OF GENERATIONS OF CUSTOMERS SUPPORTING GENERATIONS OF OUR FAMILY AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD, THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO EXPLAIN. WE'RE GLAD TO SEE CARE. YOU BRUCE RUTHIE LORI, DON'T HAVE HELPED CARRY IT ON IS THE FUTURE GOOD. >> THE FUTURE IS VERY GOOD. AND SO IS THE CHICKEN NOTED SO MANY FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESSES. NOW THESE THEY GO OUT. >> AND HE'S BEEN HERE A LONG TIME. AND WE NEED TO KNOW TO BE HERE LONG. >> ALTMAN'S IS OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK FOR BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER

Tar Heel Traveler: Altmans Grocery Barn

Wawa, the beloved, Pennsylvania-based gas station and convenience store, is planning an expansion into North Carolina. 

Wawa to open stores in NC by end of 2024

Wawa hoagie

A worker at one of the biggest convenience store chains in Japan doesn't need a lunch break or oxygen.

<p>EVERYTHING FROM $1 HOW TO $2,000. THEY HAVEN'T SET A PRICE YET. ALEAST THEY HAVEN'T RELEASED T. &gt;&gt;&gt; A WORK ARE AT ONE OF LARGEST CONVENIENCE STORE CHAINS IN JAPAN DOESN'T NEED A LUNCH BREAK OR OXYGEN. THE STORE SET UP ITS FIRST ROBOT THIS WEEK. IT IS NAMED MODEL T. THAT IS AFTER THE ICONIC FORTED AUTOMOBILE FROM THE EARLY 1900s. THE ROBOT CAN GRASP OBJECTS AN STOCK SHELVES. STAFF CONTROL IT REMOTELY. &gt;&gt; THAT IS FASCINATING TO WATCH IT DO THAT. &gt;&gt; SAFER TOO. CONVENIENCE STORE CLERKS ARE ALWAYS IN DANGER, PEOPLE ROBBING THE PLACE. THIS WAKER MODEL T JUST SAYS DO WHAT YOU WANT. I'M A ROBOT. &gt;&gt; THE FUTURE, ISN'T IT IN WHAT</p>

Japan introduces giant robots to help in Tokyo convenience stores

Japan introduces giants robots to help in Tokyo convenience stores

Most people love a good old country store. Tonight, we find Scott Mason, our Tar Heel Traveler, in Perquimans County for a unique store in Belvidere.

Perquimans County country store brings back memories for customers

Deputies with the Wake County Sheriff's Office have arrested a man they believe is responsible for a rash of convenience store robberies that occurred at multiple locations in Eastern Wake County during the Christmas holiday last month.

Wake County deputies charge man with rash of Christmas convenience store robberies

Kadarly Mcleod

The Orange County Sheriff's Office is investigating the robbery of a convenience store in Hillsborough that could be connected with similar robberies in Wake County.

Orange County deputies investigating burglary similar to ones in Wake County

Orange County burglary vehicle and suspect

Fayetteville police are asking for the public's help locating a suspect in a robbery of a convenience store.

Juvenile in custody, charged with robbery of Fayetteville convenience store

Fayetteville convenience store robbery suspect

A Zebulon man faces charges in an attack on a Raleigh convenience store clerk and a subsequent carjacking, according to arrest warrants.

Warrant: Raleigh store clerk's thumb almost severed during armed robbery

Samuel Leuci, Raleigh knife attack, robbery, carjacking

Police in Cary are searching for a suspect who they believed robbed convenience stores three times since April.



Cary police looking for man who robbed 3 convenience stores

Jaequan Wright faces first-degree murder and robbery charges in connection with the death of Rayd Ali Al Qadhi, 29, at the Express Mart gas station on Clinton Road.

Man charged in shooting death of Fayetteville store clerk

A Jacksonville, Florida gas station owner is asking people not to warm urine in the microwave. "We got sick and tired of people bringing their urine containers," says Parul Patel, owner of On the Fly convenience store and BP gas station."They're just random people walking and it's happening every day."


New sign at Florida gas station: No urine in the microwave

Clerk at convenience store shoots would-be robber 

Clerk at convience store shoots would-be robber 

The clerk at a Durham convenience store wrestled away a gun from a man attempting to rob him Monday night and turned the weapon on the would-be thief.