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BUXTON (AP) — Part of Hatteras Island that's popular with surf fishermen is closed because the first piping plover nest of the season has hatched there.

Forsyth County could be getting its first solar farm if an Arizona company can find a suitable site of at least 10 acres.

Jason Ellsworth, chief executive officer of Sunlight Partners of Mesa, said the company is searching for land in the Winston-Salem area "to build small utility-scale projects that generate clean energy for local utilities."

As some Greensboro voters may remember, there were several animals in the original 2006 Animal Discovery development plans that never made it into our new zoological expansion.

For example, prairie dogs became meerkats, marmosets became howler monkeys, and African wild dogs became endangered maned wolves.

NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH (AP) — Emergency sandbags are being placed to protect eight oceanfront buildings at Topsail Reef on the North Carolina coast.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- America's most polluted cities are making progress toward cleaning up their air, but unhealthy levels of air pollution still exist and have worsened in some parts of the country, according to a report the American Lung Association released on Wednesday.