The North Carolina Sedimentation Control Commission during its meeting Thursday is to consider continuing to give N.C.

Lepidoptera, as they are known to scientists, are familiar creatures that are not only welcome guests in many gardens, they are also essential to certain flowering species' survival.

Sampling at Asheboro's wastewater treatment plant revealed elevated discharges of 1,4-dioxane, a likely human carcinogen, in a waterway upstream of drinking water sources for some 900,000 North ...

The Marine Fisheries Commission is expected to consider adopting more restrictions on the commercial harvest of blue crabs, a move the N.C. Carolina Coastal Counties Fisheries Coalition opposes.

Carolina Beach's federally authorized beach nourishment project scheduled to begin this weekend is expected to continue for the next four to five weeks, depending on the weather.

A gull keeps watch from atop the North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferry Division's vehicle ferry Kinnakeet as it plies the Neuse River between Minnesott Beach and Cherry Branch. Photo: ...

Drainage systems that rely on gravity fail when the difference in elevation that drives water from land to sea has been ...

The Environmental Management Commission voted to postpone hearing proposed rules to monitor and minimize the two human-made chemical compounds from industrial users and dischargers.

The deadline is Dec. 5 to submit comments to NCDEQ's Division of Coastal Management on the proposed project to widen and ...