Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) in Duplin County, NC. Hog farms can be identified by the lagoons located next to the long hog houses. The hog waste is washed from the houses into the ...

A 17-year-old worker died at a pork producer in Nebraska run by the governor’s family. Two investigations later, the boy’s ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. As a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, Jamie Berger wrote her undergraduate honors thesis on ...

When she visited the Wayne County farm on Feb. 3, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality inspector saw a thick layer of hay laden with charcoal-colored foam in a ditch. That foam seemed to have ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will investigate whether the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality violated federal law by issuing permits to industrial hog operations that allow ...

This story appeared first in WFAE reporter David Boraks' weekly newsletter. Subscribe today to get Climate News straight to your email inbox each week. Two human-driven trends are coming together to ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Farmer Jennings Briley, 22, recently earned her degree in natural resources at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. And a few weeks back, she began a new education among the ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A vacant Oregon Hill pizza place is set to become a pig pen of sorts. Goochland’s Hog Haven Farm is moving into the former Peddler on Pine Street space at 238 S. Pine St., with plans ...

Hog farmer Ryan McClure (above), Grover Hill, runs a state-of-the-art operation (below) on his family farm, McClure Farms Hillside Acres. As a contract family grower for Cooper Farms, Oakwood, the ...

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is asking the public to comment on its draft permits that oversee hog, cattle and a limited number of poultry operations across the state as part of a five ...