The Chapel Hill Town Council recently finalized a decade-long effort for finding a solution to the coal ash at 828 MLK Jr.

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have released estimates that U.S. coal ash contains 11 million tons of ...

The Chapel Hill Town Council approved a brownfields agreement limiting how the town’s old police HQ property can be ...

Environmentalists: Water draining from beneath a lined landfill containing coal ash is nevertheless contaminated and threatens the Des Moines River ...

Deacon Bill Schreiber dipped his thumb into a pot of ashes before drawing a small cross on a parishioner’s forehead. Schreiber and church assistants repeated the process for around 100 ...

Katherine Legge is set to become the first woman driver in a NASCAR Cup series race since Danica Patrick retired in 2018, Mooresville-based Live Fast Motorsports said Monday. Legge will make her ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team ...

With much of Western North Carolina under abnormally dry conditions, wildfires are burning in the region. The largest fire in WNC is a nearly 500-acre blaze in Polk County that has required ...

A Mooresville man won more than $300,000 on a $1 lottery ... Carolina Cash 5 is one of six lottery games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying tickets at a retail location or with ...

At the most recent town council meeting, the Town of Irmo officially passed a resolution supporting Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). The town wants state legislature to allow towns and municipalities the ...

A North Carolina man who was found guilty earlier this month of a rape and stabbing that occurred more than 40 years ago is asking for a new trial. James Wilson, 61, of Mooresville, North Carolina ...

Then, the next chapter in their lives led them to rural North Carolina. This year marks 40 years since they ... including co-chair of the Northampton County Citizens Against Coal Ash and as co-founder ...