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On the evening of January 31, 2022, a fire broke out at the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant located in a business and residential area on Winston-Salem's…

One month ago, Winston-Salem made national headlines for a fire that could have grown into something much worse. Thankfully the ammonium nitrate stored at…

Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo says the explosion threat from a fire at a fertilizer plant has "greatly diminished" now that much of a combustible chemical has burned off and firefighters have returned to the site to spray down what's left.

UPDATED 6:35 p.m. An uncontrolled fire at a fertilizer plant in North Carolina forced thousands of people to evacuate as firefighters stood back Tuesday…

With the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season off to a record start, experts are looking at how emergency response could be affected during the pandemic. There…

On Tuesday, Gov. Roy Cooper described Hurricane Florence as an extremely dangerous, life-threatening hurricane, and he urged those directly in the storm's…

The construction company being blamed for last week's power outage on North Carolina's Outer Banks now faces pending lawsuits. At least three lawsuits…

Firefighters are continuing to battle blazes in Western North Carolina. Some residents in the region have been evacuated, and the impact may reach far…