Dozens of students and Chapel Hill residents marched Monday afternoon, calling on the University of North Carolina ... coal ash each year, which is trucked across state lines and dumped in a ...

Wedged in a wrinkle of land between the local landfill and Waterworks Hill north of Interstate ... tests determined the ash was 39 million years old, meaning the coal-and-fossil layer above ...

"I'm just very careful about my water," said Jones, whose home sits on the edge of R&B Landfill. Since 2015, trucks from North and South Carolina have filled it with at least 6.7 million tons of coal ...

So far this year, more than 4,000 wildfires have burned more than 24,000 acres of woodlands in North Carolina. Here’s how to ...

It forced some evacuations. Stay up to date with the location and size of fires with our North Carolina wildfire and smoke map. The map is interactive, is updated hourly and provides detailed ...

All you need to do is book a trip to Emerald Isle, a laid-back beach town and popular vacation spot on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast. The water off the coast of Emerald Isle doesn’t have the ...

Born and raised in western North Carolina, the 20-year-old college student studied abroad in Spain last semester, so he cast his ballot using an online portal for military and overseas voters.

North Carolina's elections board became a Republican majority on Thursday as the GOP state auditor appointed a new panel one day after an appeals court ruled a law shifting that power away from ...