Police News
In 2018 the Wake Forest Police Department (WFPD) received international accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. (CALEA). The accreditation verifies that the WFPD meets CALEA’s industry best-practice standards and...Read more
During the week of March 6, Town crews will install a new sidewalk along a portion of the 400 block of Durham Road/NC 98 Wait Avenue. The work is scheduled each day from 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
A temporary lane closure may be required on Wednesday, March 8, while crews pour the concrete.
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***UPDATE - Holding Avenue crossing is open
The Holding Avenue railroad crossing is now open. CSX’s scheduled maintenance on Wake Forest crossings is now complete.
No further updates will be issued.
The information below was distributed March 7 at 8:23 am:...Read more
CSX officials now say the Brick Street, Elm Avenue, Holding Avenue, and Friendship Chapel Road railroad crossings will be closed for maintenance on Tuesday, Feb. 28. The Rogers Road crossing will be closed on Wednesday, March 1.
The work on all five crossings is tentatively scheduled for...Read more
Wake Forest Police are asking for the public’s help identifying and locating the individual shown in the attached surveillance images.
The subject is wanted for questioning in connection with an alleged assault that occurred just before 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16, at the Wake Forest...Read more
CSX officials now say the Brick Street, Elm Avenue, Holding Avenue, and Friendship Chapel Road railroad crossings will be closed for maintenance on Tuesday, Feb. 28. The Rogers Road crossing...Read more
Beginning at approximately 10 a.m. today, Monster Tree Service will reduce to one lane with intermittent two-way traffic the portion of South Main Street/US 1A from East Holding Avenue to West Vernon Avenue. The temporary lane shift is necessary to allow tree crews to remove a tree that poses a...Read more
Town crews will reduce to one lane with alternating two-way traffic the portion of Unicon Drive from 1 World Way to Connector Drive Thursday-Friday, Feb. 16-17, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. each day. The temporary lane closure is necessary to allow crews to make repairs to the roadway.
Signs,...Read more
Turner Asphalt, a contractor working at the future Hawthorne at the Forest, will periodically reduce to one lane portions of (northbound and southbound) Capital Boulevard/US 1 from Burlington Mills Road to South Main Street/US 1A throughout February from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. each day. The periodic lane...Read more
Drivers should expect delays along North White Street Wednesday, Feb. 15. Town crews will reduce to one lane with alternating two-way traffic the portion of North White from East Juniper Avenue to East Cedar Avenue from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. The temporary lane closure is necessary to allow crews to make...Read more