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More than 100 people from Anson, Montgomery, Stanly, Davidson and Rowan counties attended a hearing Tuesday in Raleigh where state legislators were considering possible creation of a Yadkin River Trust.

Published: Monday, July 6, 2009 at 5:00 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 5:43 p.m. Handy Sanitary District customers living within the first phase of the $18 million Badin Lake regional sewer project area have until July 13 to pay the $3,500 sewer connection fee before the price jumps to $7,500 once construction begins.

The Alcoa Power Generating Inc. official most closely identified with the company's relicensing effort for the Yadkin Project officially retired June 1. But Gene Ellis, former licensing and property manager with APGI, has stayed on in the prolonged relicensing fight as a consultant, working with Long View Associates of Washington state.

Published: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 7:24 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 7:24 a.m. Spend an hour on the Westchester Country Day School campus with recent graduate Lily Ragan and you'll find she's different from the average 18-year-old. Send us your photos E-mail photos taken at graduations in Davidson County to ...

Zoe Gamble, Board of Directors President for Yadkin Riverkeeper Inc., has announced that Dean Naujoks, the Yadkin Riverkeeper, has been awarded the River Network's 2009 National River Heroes Award.

Drought has forced North Carolina to take a closer look at its dependence on rivers for drinking water and economic development.

State Sen. Fletcher Hartsell is joining the fight over control of the Yadkin River with the recent introduction of legislation on the issue.

The Alcoa-owned dams that created High Rock Lake, Tuckertown Reservoir and Badin Lake were financed with private funds over 50 years ago and the state of North Carolina has no business usurping those investors .

Supporters of a state takeover of Alcoa's Yadkin Hydroelectric Project argue the action is justified because of lost jobs at Badin Works, the need for better water control, potential state revenues to be gained from the sale of electricity, environmental issues and because the Yadkin River is a public resource whose benefits should flow primarily ...

Federal regulators Friday granted Gov. Bev Perdue's eleventh-hour motion to intervene in the renewal of Alcoa's hydroelectric license for the Yadkin River.

Aluminum company Alcoa is asking federal regulators to deny Governor Bev Perdue's request for an emergency hearing in the Yadkin River dispute.

Senate Bill 967, which would establish a state trust to own and manage the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project, won the unanimous support Tuesday of the N.C. Senate's Judiciary II Committee.

Published: Monday, April 6, 2009 at 5:00 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 10:04 p.m. He may not have a badge, a siren or a weapon, but Dean Naujoks has a duty to enforce state and federal clean water laws and ensure the Yadkin River will be protected for generations to come.

A.L. Brown High School student Chantez Leach gets a ride on "Cody" with the help of teacher assistant Chip English and Beth Schenck from Happy Valley Farms in Woodleaf.

For the avid fisherman the central part of North Carolina, known as the Piedmont, has many opportunities to land a big one.

Proposed bill in the N.C. General Assembly would forcibly seize hydropower business along the Yadkin River, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars BADIN, N.C., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcoa Power Generating Inc.

Published: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 4:42 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 4:42 p.m. WINSTON-SALEM The Yadkin Riverkeeper has announced its official endorsement of the State Trust Concept, a document created by the N.C. Water Rights Committee as an option in response to Alcoa's application for a 50-year federal license for the Yadkin ...

With her larger-than-life personality and outspoken demeanor, Star Jones Reynolds drew upon both her legal and broadcasting backgrounds to become a formidable force in television, most notably on the highly successful ABC daytime talk show, "The View" . Jones was born March 24, 1962 in Badin, NC, growing up both there and in Trenton, NJ.

The public should be allowed to tap into the stream of revenue that Alcoa Power Generating Inc.

Published: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 10:17 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 10:18 p.m. Two bills filed last week in the N.C. General Assembly would require Alcoa Power Generating Inc.