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Hurricane Helene鈥檚 flood waters may have contaminated drinking water across western North Carolina. Residents with overtopped wells must boil and test the water before concluding it鈥檚 safe.

People who served in the Canal Zone were left out of a law that made it easier to get care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will use a chemical to improve water quality in Lake Mattamuskeet. Conservationists worry it will harm birds at North Carolina's largest freshwater lake.

Lake Mattamuskeet is the largest natural freshwater lake in North Carolina. The lake has experienced declining water quality for decades, leading to harmful algal blooms. A proposal would address these algal blooms using a chemical treatment.

A North Carolina judge has given Gov. Roy Cooper a legal win involving an environmental board and a new law that reduced the number of positions he appoints to it. The trial judge agreed Thursday to issue a temporary restraining order preventing the Environmental Management Commission from ending its own lawsuit over new discharge limits of an industrial chemical.

Forty-one years after protestors marched for six weeks to oppose what they saw as environmental racism, Warren County activists look to take a leading role in the evolving environmental justice movement.

North Carolina State University researchers have genetically modified bacteria to break down ocean-polluting plastics commonly used in water bottles and clothing.

West Badin residents are calling for the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to issue Alcoa a stricter hazardous waste discharge permit.

Environmental advocates say that a provision in the new state budget will impede efforts to ban plastic bags and reduce solid waste pollution, especially among North Carolina's rivers.

New research estimates that anglers who eat fish from waters contaminated by PFAS, also called 鈥渇orever chemicals,鈥� may be ingesting large doses of the chemicals. It suggests that local authorities notify fishers of contamination in the state鈥檚 waterways to help them make better decisions about where to cast their lines.