NCDOT has announced a road closure for bridge repairs in Duplin County, with detours via U.S. 117, N.C. 50, and N.C. 403.

UPDATE (6/20/25): Randy Wright has been found unharmed. DUPLIN COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — The Duplin County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a missing 48-year-old man last seen on June 3rd ...

Heaney is continuing Wing’s legacy of digging into pollution exposures in Duplin by working in collaboration with residents like Hall. One poignant example of their work was finding evidence of fecal ...

In Duplin County, North Carolina, there is a pollutant that hangs in the air, the water and the soil. It tumbles in the breeze and into homes through open windows, settling as a thin film of dust on ...

As seen in Figure 1A, we observe that in areas with high swine farm density, like Duplin County, North Carolina, the number of households within a 1-mile buffer is generally high. However, across ...

Active wildfires in NC, per North Carolina Wildfire Public Viewer ∎ Caldwell County: Wilson Ridge - 95% containment, 14.5 acres ∎ Columbus County: Cruseo Island Road - 80% containment, 536 acres ...

Three wildfires burning in Polk County have spread over nearly 5,754 acres, according to the North Carolina Forest Service, and the two larger fires were not contained at all.

The N.C. Forest Service has an interactive map showing wildfires across the state. It’s been a busy spring fire season so far. As of Monday, March 24, 2025, the map showed 112 fires on more than ...

A wildfire in southwestern North Carolina was the largest active fire in the state, having spread more than 600 acres in Polk County near the South Carolina border, according to the forest service.

In Polk County, a 593-acre fire was 63 percent contained as of 10:13 p.m. on Monday, the map showed. A five-acre fire in Gaston County was zero percent contained, as of approximately the same time.

Some residents in the small southwestern town of Tryon in Polk County, North Carolina, were urged to evacuate—a decision on whether to lift evacuations for the area is expected to be made on Monday.