One North Carolina local election last month had no candidates running for office, and not a single voter showed up to the polling place. No one in Rutherford County’s tiny Cliffside community wants ...

2 March 2007 — The North Carolina Utilities Commission approved one of two proposed 800-MW coal units for Duke Energy Carolinas to build at the Cliffside Steam Station west of Charlotte. In a brief ...

Cliffside Sanitary District, which serves around 75 customers, is under state control because of financial hardship. In response to financial hardships that are plaguing some of its smallest ...

25 million years ago in Siberia, Russia, the Earth's crust literally ripped itself open and created what would become Lake Baikal, the deepest lake on Earth. Lake Baikal sits in an active rift valley, ...