PLANT NATIVE : Alliance for Cape Fear Trees host free tree distribution event this Friday and (if you’re lucky) Saturday. Photos by Jeff Hall Photography Having grown up in rural Mount Airy, NC, I now covet the treasures of the natural world that surrounded our single-wide trailer. Acres of trees on land that belonged to my grandfather (and his grandparents); where his three children (including my mother) grew up priming tobacco; and where they would continue to live and buil

Public comments are open on the proposed permit for for discharges from the City of Asheboro Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Save Sledge Forest has around 12,500 signatures on their petition which they will present at the County Commissioner’s meeting on Monday, October 6. “If I were a county commissioner, I’d think of it as 12,500 votes,” Castle Hayne resident Carrie Bogart notes.

Voting opens October 3: Click on “Vote Now” to watch the finalists’ videos and cast up to one vote per day, per category, for the organization you feel deserves to win.

Rachel Lewis Hilburn and Andy Wood, host a short-form series called “Speaking of Trees,” set to air on PBS’s Sci NC on October 9.

Are you familiar with Sledge Forest and Copper Builders' plan to develop 1,000 acres near protected wetlands? We've got some catch-up notes here for you, but you can learn about why people don't want this project and how you can act at the Save Sledge Forest Rally on June 21 at Waterline Brewing.

Before WECT's 'To Drill or Not to Drill?' debate began, encore asked speaker Jean-Michel Cousteau two questions. His answers are published here in their entirety.