Protests are rising over a state plan to open a shooting range near Lake James, at the foot of Burke County’s rugged and renowned Linville Gorge Wilderness. The site is on state game lands 70 miles northwest of Charlotte and…

• EDITOR’S NOTE: Veterans’ Corner, a column to inform armed-forces veterans about services and benefits available to them, appears the first Sunday of each month. From the 1950s through the 1980s, people living or working at the U.S. Marine Corps…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Duke Energy has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement with Virginia over a massive coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of the Dan River in gray sludge, state environmental officials announced Friday. The settlement drew immediate…

Work continues on the Waldorf condominium complex in the Ortley Beach section of Toms River. Jersey Shore summer rentals are picking up this year, according to several experts.(Photo: PETER ACKERMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) ASBURY PARK, N.J. — The Waldorf condominium complex in…

NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH | Town officials in North Topsail Beach are reviewing its options for complying with a notice of violation it has received from the state regarding the sandbag revetment recently completed at the north end of town. The…

Jan. 23 was a rotten day to sail out of Bucksport Marina RV Resort. An inch of rain would soon drench the swamps and rivers between Garden City and Murrell’s Inlet. The next day’s forecast wasn’t much better: thunderstorms and…

Broadkill Beach north of Lewes is about to get an estimated $30 million gift from federal taxpayers that leaders of the sleepy bayside community have sought for decades: a massive infusion of sand creating a beach in places six times…

Governor Charlie Baker’s plan to end the state’s controversial film tax credit is facing mounting opposition in the House of Representatives, marking the Democrat-controlled Legislature’s first significant break with the Republican governor. A vocal group of rank-and-file representatives has joined…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — in the new state ­budget. The $142 billion spending plan ­includes $125,000 in appropriations for the Christmas Tree Farmers Association of New York, which got one of the hundreds of pork-barrel…

Last month I wrote about North Carolina’s environment secretary urging federal authorities to keep wind farms at least 24 miles off North Carolina’s shoreline. Secretary Donald van der Vaart cited four studies commissioned by New Jersey, where a proposed wind…