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The EPA announced plans Wednesday to roll back drinking water standards for so-called 鈥渇orever chemicals.鈥� In North Carolina, water treatment facilities across the state have spent millions to upgrade filtration systems to treat PFAS pollution.

Lawmakers want to force a recreational fishing season for Southern flounder, which experts say is overfished and in danger of collapse.

A group of Ukrainian immigrants gathers every Saturday in Mint Hill to pray, as the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year and many refugees are anxious about losing their immigration status.

Davidson County Schools officials say they were misled about a school assembly that allegedly included religious content.

Rep. Ted Davis has spent five years working on legislation that would make Chemours pay for PFAS-removing upgrades built by Southeastern NC utilities.

Charlotte-based Bella Tunno sells cute baby products manufactured in China. The company's founder says Trump's 145% tariff on Chinese imports has put the business in an untenable position.

The North Carolina House passed the proposed legislation this week.

PFAS, also known as 鈥渇orever chemicals,鈥� are found in several North Carolina waterways, including the Cape Fear River. Powerful lobbying groups like the NC Chamber have opposed legislative and regulatory efforts to stop PFAS at the source.

The bill's sponsor said Senate Bill 484 seeks to balance the rights of protesters and those of employers and their workers.

In 1873, a group of about 50 African Americans facing threats from the Ku Klux Klan in their hometown of Cross Anchor in Spartanburg County, left in the middle of the night for the western North Carolina mountains. They named a king and queen, built a two-story palace and called their new kingdom Happy Land. Bestselling author Dolen Perkins-Valdez has written a novel with the same title based on this incredible true story.