At a little after 9 a.m. last Tuesday, I was walking in ankle-high weeds alongside Interstate 40 near Exit 152 in North ...

It left a loophole — leaving unregulated those unlined ponds and landfills that stopped receiving coal fly and bottom ash before 2015 — large enough for companies to exploit. The agency’s ...

It was Edward Johnson, an associate of Thomas Edison, who gets credit for inventing them back in 1882 — 80 red, white and blue lightbulbs strung first in his window and then around his Christmas ...