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  Here's a thing: Smoky Mountain News reporter Cory Vaillancourt reported on Twitter late Tuesday afternoon that Spirtas Worldwide has ...

  What a movie for Christmas Eve! Season of hope and renewal, coinciding (more or less) with the Winter Solstice, when the sun decides to re...

  A complaint was filed in Watauga County Superior Court last week seeking a declaratory ruling that Watauga County is guilty of its own neg...

We expect the newly inaugurated president to sign some 15 separate executive orders this afternoon, with more promised in the next weeks.  T...

  Because keeping up and caring about all this stuff is so exhausting. I mean, I loved "The Apprentice," especially "Celebrit...

Her whole 5-minute speech.

Governor Cooper announced yesterday that he will veto the budget passed by the Republicans in the General Assembly, and for the first ti...

AP Newsbreak AP headline , 11:35, Friday morning, September 21: Coal ash may be flowing into Cape Fear River Substitute ...

When science predicts bad stuff, ban science. Yeah, that's the plan. Or at least that was the plan back in 2012 for the NC General Asse...

The 6th Congressional District of Virginia looks about as hopelessly Republican as they come. The incumbent Republican congressman, Bob Goo...

Rob Schofield decries the rush of new laws in this current session of the North Carolina General Assembly -- laws written in secret and so...

Indebted to Jeffrey C. Billman for bringing us up to date on a new North Carolina Farm Bill, now moving through the Republican Senate in R...

Heavenly Mtn development, May 30, 2018 Photo Boone Police Dept. Thing is, Watauga County was mapped for landslide hazards in 2007 , and...

November can't get here fast enough! If you're not paying attention to the clown car in Raleigh, you may not know that the Repub...

That stain on the South Dakota landscape is the Keystone Pipeline spill of over 200,000 gallons of oil Thank you,...

1. Scientists have been warning that climate change will produce more "rain bombs," catastrophic amounts of rainfall in short ti...

Unprecedented droughts. Worse and worser heat waves. Rain "bombs" and fiercer storms slashing the landscape. The average temper...

WASHINGTON -- It's official. Climate change denial is now national policy.  The United States of America affirmed today that global...

Exxon Mobil’s chief executive, Darren W. Woods, is strong in his defense of this nation's remaining a part of the Paris climate agreem...

Scott Pruitt “The future ain’t what it used to be at the E.P.A.” --Scott Pruitt, Trump's administrator at the Environmental Prot...