Almost three years after millions of gallons of gasoline leaked from an oil pipeline in Huntersville, officials are still trying to figure out how to clean it...

Independence Park’s $5.9 million facelift is expected to be complete in mid-March. As you move along 7th Street or Hawthorne Lane in Elizabeth, you can...

Editor’s note: The North Carolina Utilities Commission released its plan on Dec. 30 for Duke Energy.  It requires the company to retire its remaining...

It will be more expensive to heat your home this winter. Yes, but: There are ways you can save on your bill and assistance with paying your bill to alleviate...

The nonprofit Friends of Queens Park is proposing transforming 37 acres of land owned by the county, city and private developers between North Tryon and North...

In 2018, Cam Newton tallied 11 votes to be Mecklenburg County’s soil and water conservation district supervisor. It’s the last office at the bottom of...

It’s bird migration season. State of play: Millions of them pass through the Carolinas, often at night, as they make their way through on the Atlantic...

Presented by Charlotte ranks 47th out of 100 in a recent survey of the greenest cities across the U.S. The big picture: While that may be better than where we...

North Carolina has lofty ambitions to shift to electric vehicles (EVs) as a way to cut down on emissions. Large-scale fleets are beginning to move that way —...

Mecklenburg County is spending nearly $8 million to add about a mile of new outdoor space in south Charlotte that will extend an already popular greenway...

Charlotte has a dirty little problem that looks to have gotten worse over time: Litter is scattered on our sidewalks, filling our creeks and strewn all over...

Paul Manley’s Charlotte restaurants shuck about 1 million oysters a year, and at least for now, all of the shells go to the landfill. He’d like to...