Jay Bender has served as mayor for over 40 years in the town of Pollocksville.On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, he came to Town Hall ...

Amidst a comeback for the red-cockaded woodpecker — the South’s not-always-welcome neighbor — a new legal status and ...

One of the highest honors a citizen of North Carolina can receive — the highest one can receive directly from the governor, in fact — is the Order of the Longleaf Pine. This award is granted ...

The glow of a wildfire is a terrifying sight, but for our forests that fire might not be such a bad thing, since “most of our landscapes need fire,” according to Dr. Robert ...

People like to start fires,” said Robert Scheller, a forestry and environmental resources professor at N.C. State. “We’re ...

ADVANCE, N.C., March 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SolRiver Capital, a Denver-based renewable energy investment firm, announced the start of onsite construction at its 7 MW Longleaf Solar Project in ...