The Town of Cary will begin pickup of Christmas trees and vegetative material such as wreaths and garland as a part of regular curbside yard waste collection on Jan. 3.

Progress Energy has signed a contract to purchase the energy output from North Carolina’s first plant that converts poultry waste into biogas.

Progress will purchase the output of a 36-megawatt power plant in Montgomery County that will be owned and operated by Poultry Power USA.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Poultry Power is a subsidiary of Green Frontiers Energy.

The plant will use a clean gasification technology that turns chicken waste into a biogas to be burned inside a boiler.

The heat in the boiler creates steam that then turns a turbine and generates electricity.

In 24 states, including North Carolina, your computer and other electronics is no longer considered trash. Read more about the states requiring e-cycling by law.

Make your holiday season a little greener this year by recycling holiday waste. Wake County will hold the Holiday Wrap-Up Recycling Program, which begins Sunday, Dec. 26 and runs through Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011.

Michael Starkey, 50, was in jail under a habitual felon sentence until Judge Ernest B. Fullwood ruled during a retrial in January of 2005 that it ... more

See inmate Jerry Adams talk about being labeled as "undesirable in society" after being senteneced under the habitual-felon law. Video by staff ... more

Inmate Jerry Adams talks about the cost of $28000 per year to keep him in prison during his habitual-felon sentence of 11-15 years. Video by staff ... more