When Duke Energy opened four floodgates at Cowans Ford Dam last fall, it made headlines. On that September day, water surged ...

For more than a week after the storm, the Catawba River system was overwhelmed by storm waters, leading to the opening of ...

A group of tubers went over a dam near a Duke Energy plant, in a deadly incident that reportedly happened Wednesday in northern North Carolina Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE.