Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter ... Torrential rains have also caused devastating damage to dam infrastructure outside of North Carolina. On Friday afternoon, the Tennessee Emergency ...

The dam is roughly 30 miles southeast of Asheville. Flood warnings have been issued for several counties and towns in Western North Carolina, including Avery, Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes and ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved 20-year extensions for North Anna Power Station‘s two nuclear reactors, allowing them to operate through 2058 and 2060, Dominion Energy announced ...

The North Anna nuclear plant is expected to begin ... Virginia Power performed a quarterly inspection of the Lake Anna dam last week. "Everything checked out OK," said commission spokeswoman ...

and relocated these salamanders to a different part of the Watauga River in North Carolina while U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologists and engineers carefully deconstructed Shull’s Mill Dam ...

Sometimes, a person just needs to reinvent herself. Whether it’s “Eat Pray Love,” “New Girl,” or “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” there are a lot of stories out there about women ...

National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists are urging North Carolina residents in Rutherford County downstream of the Lake Lure Dam to evacuate immediately as the dam is at risk of imminent ...