What happens when a data center is built just beyond your backyard? For some Conover residents, that’s no longer a hypothetical. Catawba County leaders say the project means major economic investment, but nearby residents see dust, noise and an uncertain future.
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Dangerous heat continues across the Carolinas today, and it’s not just daytime heat that’s taking a toll. Warmer nights may also be putting people’s health at risk.
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Charlotte experienced near record-breaking high temperatures this past holiday weekend. But where you live determines a lot about just how hot it gets.
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Wednesday night, the Party for Socialism and Liberation held protest-style news conferences in cities across North Carolina, calling on the state to take action against new data centers.
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Gaston County purchased 562 undeveloped acres along Lake Wylie in Belmont for a future public park. The goal is to increase public access to the lake and preserve land that directly contributes to water and habitat quality.
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President Trump’s campaign against wind energy in North Carolina advanced this week. Three months after French-owned TotalEnergies relinquished its lease off the Carolina Coast, Duke Energy reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of the Interior to end the utility’s offshore wind lease off the coast of Wilmington.
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