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Shannon Howard James Pitts of Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy, on a field trip at Forsyth Technical Community College, shot himself in the hand, leading to a lockdown of the school and a massive police response, Winston-Salem police said.

Shannon Howard James Pitts of Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy, on a field trip at Forsyth Technical Community College, shot himself in the hand, leading to a lockdown of the school and a massive police response, Winston-Salem police said.

A bill filed Tuesday in the N.C. House calls for a study into whether changes in how electricity is bought, sold and transmitted in North Carolina could protect the state

One Triad legislator thinks the state has done enough to end annual vehicle emissions inspections everywhere but in Mecklenburg County, which continues to register North Carolina’s highest ozone pollution readings.

Neglected structural deficiencies at a Winston-Salems Weaver fertilizer plant may have heightened the risk for what fire officials feared at the time could have been one of the most destructive explosions in the nation’s history.

One Triad legislator thinks the state has done enough to end annual vehicle emissions inspections everywhere but in Mecklenburg County, which continues to register North Carolina’s highest ozone pollution readings.

The city of Winston-Salem is shooting for mid-summer to install and activate a 70-kilowatt system of solar panels on the Bryce A. Stuart Municipal Building in downtown.

Fruit farmers in the Triad and across much of North Carolina are bracing for another round of sub-freezing temperatures that threaten to damage their early-blooming crops after record warmth in

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed long-awaited limits on toxic per- and polyfluorinated substances, or PFAS.

Recently filed bills in the N.C. General Assembly aim to ensure electric-vehicle drivers have access to chargers when they’re ready to plug in — whether they’re at home or out