File photo of Duke Energy engineers and contractors surveying the site of a coal ash spill at the Dan River Power Plant in Eden, N.C. as state and federal environmental officials continued their ...

EDEN — About a half mile downstream from where the Dan River spill occurred on another Sunday six months ago, Brian Williams steered his canoe over to what looked like a garden-variety sandbar. It was ...

DANVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) - Friday marks the 10th anniversary of the Dan River Coal Ash Spill – a devastating event that left the river full of toxic metals. February 2, 2014, a pipe burst at the Duke ...

In the nine days since a coal ash storage basin at Duke Energy’s old Dan River Steam Station spilled an estimated 27 million gallons of water and 82,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River in Eden, ...

GLEN LYN — The old Appalachian Power Co. plant here sits above the New River — and above coal ash storage ponds, the type of facility that earlier this year fouled miles of the Dan River. About 10 ...

Terrified passengers leapt into the river after a coal barge struck a wooden boat taxi, leaving three people missing. The small passenger boat was carrying 40 people when its engine failed while ...