More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden’s hope for saving the Earth from the devastating effects of climate change may not be dead. But it's not far from it. A Supreme Court ruling Thursday has not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate climate poll…
India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as a part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. Officials said that making, importing, stocking, or selling these banned items will lead to fines and, in some cases…
Companies that want to sell shampoo bottles, food products and other items wrapped in plastic in California will have to cut down their use of the material. That's under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that sets the nation's most stringent plastics reduction rules. It would requi…
In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court has limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. By a 6-3 vote Thursday, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that the Clean Air Act does n…
Here’s what we should expect to see in its historic first images of the universe.
U.S. regulators are telling COVID-19 vaccine makers to tweak any booster doses intended for fall so they protect against the newest omicron relatives. There's no way to know what coronavirus variant will be the main threat as cold weather returns. But the Food and Drug Administration decided…
Eventually all good things come to an end.
U.S. regulators are telling COVID-19 vaccine makers to tweak any booster doses intended for fall so they protect against the newest omicron relatives. There's no way to know what coronavirus variant will be the main threat as cold weather returns. But the Food and Drug Administration decided…
Eventually all good things come to an end.
A new study has linked our ability or inability to move in sync with music to our genes.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is releasing the largest update to its mobile application in a decade, the agency announced today. FEMA is releasing the app at the beginning of a hurricane season that experts predict will be above average, and a wildfire season that is already devast…
Researchers from the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, Texas compared the risk of Alzheimer's disease incidence between patients with and without prior flu vaccination in a large sample of U.S. adults aged 65 and older."We found that flu vaccination in older adults reduces the …
Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, are the world’s only megacities of 10 million-plus people where large felines breed, hunt and maintain territory within urban boundaries. Long-term studies in both cities have examined how the big cats prowl through their urban jungles and how people can best l…
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The Marion Police Department made an arrest and recovered property from a series of vehicle break-ins in the downtown area. Now they are hoping they can match the property with its rightful owner.
CoMMA Performing Arts Center recently announced its complete lineup for Season 37.
The top elected officials for Greensboro and Guilford County issued a joint statement about the latest news on the ACC's plans for its headquarters, which has been in Greensboro since the league was formed. The conference has been considering a possible move, with Charlotte and Florida as other contenders for the headquarters.
This report was made possible through a grant from The Pulitzer Center to the North Carolina News Collaborative, a coalition of 23 news organizations across the state.
This report was made possible through a grant from The Pulitzer Center to the North Carolina News Collaborative, a coalition of 23 news organizations across the state.
Through his nonprofit, A Son Never Forgets, Reader has started buying single and multi-family properties in the south end of Greensboro and intends to rent or sell them to low-income people.
Engadget reports that of all the ways space can prove deadly, radiation poses one of the biggest challenges.
Fourteen smaller environmental justice organizations from around the United States have begun to receive money under the Justice40 initiative. The initiative is to improve the environment in disadvantaged communities and help them prepare for climate change. The Biden administration committe…
U.S. health officials are expanding the group of people recommended to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus. They also say they are providing more monkeypox vaccine, working to expand testing, and taking other steps to try to get ahead of the outbreak. As of Tuesday, the U.S. had ident…
Advisers to the U.S. government are recommending that COVID-19 booster shots used this fall be modified to better match more recent variants of the coronavirus. A final decision from the Food and Drug Administration is expected within days, and it will have to set the exact recipe for the ch…
Members of the Group of Seven major economies pledged Tuesday to create a new “climate club" that for nations that wants to take more ambitious action to tackle global warming. The move, championed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, will see countries that join the club agree on tougher measu…
The village of Gazi Bay on Kenya's coast, just 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of bustling Mombasa and tucked away from the country's well-trodden tourism circuit, has gained traction in recent years as a model for restoring and tending carbon-sucking mangrove trees that now crowd its bright …
A Marion man is accused of stealing copper from a heat pump, authorities said on Wednesday.
A wanted parolee convicted of a 1975 Georgia murder was caught Sunday dumpster diving in Morganton.
A local assistant principal was charged with driving while impaired after a public safety officer found him asleep behind the wheel of a pickup truck early Friday morning.
A Marion man out on bond facing drug charges was arrested on additional drug charges after encountering a license check, authorities said Thursday.
What N.C. lawmakers — and their challengers — are saying about Friday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights:
"Someday in a more enlightened future, we will have a memorial day commemorating school children lost to mass shootings," writes columnist Michael Paul Williams.
Hundreds of people are expected to come to North Carolina Saturday to see former President Donald Trump as well as several other high-profile Republican candidates running for election.
U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a Republican from Hendersonville, won a major court victory Friday when a federal judge ruled that voters shouldn’t be allowed to try to have him ruled ineligible to run for office. A group of voters from Cawthorn’s district in far-western North Carolina had filed a challenge with the State Board of Elections, claiming that Cawthorn should be banned from the ballot ...
