State and federal environmental officials have taken new legal steps in an effort to stabilize an unpermitted mine in Mitchell County.

Horizon 30 mined the Carter Quarry site outside of Poplar without a permit for several months last year. Now, DEQ is seeking ...

Gold exploration company Emerald Resources has appointed Josh Redmond as COO with immediate effect. Redmond will oversee operational performance across the group’s portfolio, including the planned ...

On January 31, 2026, in Emerald Isle, North Carolina, USA, @AshleyLMcCully shared a time-lapse video showing steady snowfall transforming the normally sandy, beachside landscape. In the video, snow ...

Our modern literacy crisis has found a new figurehead in Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”. It’s Emily Brontë’s 1847 classic for a culture that’s denigrated literature to the point where it’s no ...

A tiny mining town in western North Carolina was among those battered by Hurricane Helene — and the damage could have serious implications for the massive tech-industry supply chain that relies on it.

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and North Carolina Department of Justice (NCDOJ) have taken additional legal measures to ensure an unpermitted Mitchell County mine site is ...

Emerald Fennell's hotly anticipated reinvention of Wuthering Heights, starring Australian A-listers Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, has divided film critics ahead of its release this Valentine's ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Chatham County enacts 12-month moratorium on new data center permits. County will draft zoning rules and study community impacts ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— The Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of MountainTrue and the Center for Biological Diversity today warned Horizon 30, LLC, the owner of an illegal mining site, to stop ...