In a "fit of jealousy," Davidson druggist Monroe Jetton fatally shot Dr. W.H. Wooten in Davidson on February 10, 1914. Was he justified or not? Would the outcome be different today?

A fascinating tale of a high society murder, jealousy and friendships gone wrong set in downtown Davidson

The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago. Scientists say Earth's warming has outpaced efforts to reduce fossil fuel pollution that came out of the ...

Davidson Historical Society presents its final program of the fall, a tour of the Davidson College Cemetery on North Main Street, on Sunday, November 16, at 3pm.Society vice president Rachel Workman, ...

Duke plans to increase carbon pollution during the next decade before emissions sharply decline near the end of the 2030s.

All this week, WHQR has been airing episodes of our series, “CAFO Country,” taking a look at concentrated animal feeding operations. WHQR’s Ben Schachtman sat down with environmental journalist David ...

The growth of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, has changed the landscape of eastern North Carolina in recent decades. Big companies now depend on North Carolina farmers to supply the ...

This week, WHQR is exploring the growth and impact of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in our series "CAFO Country." As we reported, eastern North Carolina is a national leader for ho...

In 2007, North Carolina permanently banned new or expanded hog farms that collect waste in lagoons and spray it on fields as fertilizer. The idea was to shift to cleaner disposal methods at these conc...

North Carolina is a national leader with more than 8 million hogs and close to a billion chickens and turkeys in production. Most are raised on an industrial scale, in what are known as "concentrated ...

Justices reversed a decision upholding cuts to solar panel owners by 75 percent. A lower court must now revisit the net metering decision.

Our neighbor Thomas "T" Berry is in need, after a tree fell on his house on Potts Street in Dav… David Boraks needs your support for Help our neighbor T Berry

The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly ...

A new record high for CO2 levels was set at Mauna Loa Observatory in May.

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New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has carried an all-night speech in protest of President Donald Trump’s agenda into a new day.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution in an order that blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Effic...

The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...

View Richard Blackwelder's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

President Donald Trump's decision to pause enforcement of a law banning companies from bribing foreign government officials threatens to upend a half-century of U.S. policy embraced by both Republican...

Two decades ago, my wife and I bought a house in Davidson. Then the previous owner told me what had happened there, and I started digging.

Hours after being sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy took aim at the main way the federal government regulates miles per gallon for cars and pickup trucks — also a princi...

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