Chapel Hill Roadway Reopens After Down Power Line Repaired
****UPDATE: The roadway has reopened as of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.**** Part of Pritchard Avenue is...
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Carrboro High School Dismisses After Power Outage
Carrboro High School dismissed students early Friday due to a power outage at the school. Chapel Hill – Carrboro City Schools officials tweeted just after 12:40 p.m. Friday that the power outage was causing the early...
Read MoreDuke Energy Wants End of Case to Clean Tainted Groundwater
A state appeals court will hear whether it should allow a five-year-old lawsuit trying to force Duke Energy Corp. to clean up groundwater contaminated by its North Carolina coal ash pits. The Charlotte-based electricity utility...
Read MoreDuke Energy Won’t Force Neighbors to Waive All Legal Claims
Neighbors of Duke Energy Corp.’s unlined coal ash pits in North Carolina went to court after the company said their $5,000 “goodwill” payments required them to give up future health claims linked to contaminated well water, but...
Read MoreNC Regulator: Can Duke Energy Charge All Coal Ash Costs?
Regulators are deciding whether to set a precedent and allow the country’s largest electric company to charge North Carolina consumers the full, multi-billion-dollar cost of cleaning up coal ash dumps. The North Carolina...
Read MoreCoal Ash is Focus in Duke Energy’s $478M Rate Increase Bid
The nation’s largest electric company is fighting to persuade regulators that North Carolina consumers should pay 15 percent more on average, including nearly $200 million a year to clean up the toxic byproducts of burning coal...
Read MoreEast Chapel Hill High Celebrates New Solar Initiative
East Chapel Hill High held a Solar Kickoff event last Wednesday to celebrate their winning a grant to install solar panels at the school. The $300,000 grant was awarded to the school and seven other schools in the state by Duke...
Read MoreNearly 2,000 Duke Energy Customers Without Power in Western Orange County
****UPDATE: The power was restored before nine o’clock Friday night.**** More than 1,900 residents in southwestern Orange County are without power Friday afternoon, according to the Duke Energy Outage Map. Nearly 1,000 of...
Read MoreNorth Carolina OKs Lined Landfill for Duke Energy Coal Ash
Environmental regulators have approved Duke Energy’s plan for a lined landfill at a coastal North Carolina power plant so coal ash can be deposited there. The state Department of Environmental Quality announced Friday the...
Read MoreMLK Reopened in Chapel Hill After Duke Energy Transformer Replacement
****UPDATE: Chapel Hill Police officials said Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard has reopened to traffic as of 10:10 Thursday morning.**** Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard is closed Thursday morning where the thoroughfare...
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