Catawba Riverkeeper

The Catawba Riverkeeper organization is one of the 10 largest of its kind in the country, but the person responsible for that growth — Executive Director John Searby — is stepping down. As he prepares to leave, we look at his contributions to the organization, its work in keeping the Catawba healthy, and the future challenges to that health. Also, as solar tax credits near expiration, what can you do before time runs out?

When it rains on your street or driveway, that water doesn’t go to a water treatment plant, but rather, it winds up in our streams and rivers. An upcoming snorkel trail aims to remind people why protecting these rivers is important and teach them about the critters that rely on clean water to live.

South Fork Passage State Trail would provide 60 miles for hiking and paddling in North Carolina's southern Piedmont.

The Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation announced plans to move its headquarters from Charlotte to a renovated textile mill in downtown McAdenville, in Gaston County.

Environmental officials in South Carolina are investigating reports of unnatural foam forming along the Catawba River, and one of the possible suspects is a paper mill already under investigation for a foul odor along the North and South Carolina border.

Charlotte-based Duke Energy will have to excavate nearly 80 million tons of coal ash from six North Carolina sites — including Allen Steam Station in…

This week's massive sewage spill at a creek in north Charlotte was the largest ever recorded by Charlotte Water.In total, an estimated 15.4 million…

Thursday, October 12, 2017Our region’s source of life: the Catawba River. It’s been on the endangered rivers list three times but not in the past four…

Charlotte Water this weekend raised its estimate of how much raw sewage spilled from a broken pipe into a south Charlotte creek on Friday from 180,000…

Duke Energy has withdrawn a request for state permission to use an additive at its coal-fired power plants that caused problems two years ago with…