Duke Energy Corporation

May 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Wednesday that it was launching a special inspection at Duke Energy Corp's Harris nuclear power plant in North Carolina over a "quarter-inch flaw" on the plant's reactor vessel head....

Storms that have been roaring through Central Florida will continue for another couple of hours, the National Weather Service in Melbourne said. Orlando, Volusia County and Lake County will continue to see rain, forecasters said. The worst of the...

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an Alaskan village's claim that it should be able to sue oil companies and utilities for damages attributed to climate change. Lawyers for the village of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an Alaskan village's claim that it should be able to sue oil companies and utilities for damages attributed to climate change. Lawyers for the village of Kivalina wanted various named...

By John Wasik CHICAGO, May 20 (Reuters) - It used to be easy to abide by the old Wall Street nugget that you should pull out of the market in spring and come back in the fall. But research shows that it doesn't make sense to completely abandon the stock...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - It used to be easy to abide by the old Wall Street nugget that you should pull out of the market in spring and come back in the fall. But research shows that it doesn't make sense to completely abandon the stock market during the...

When voters elect a new Charlotte mayor this fall, they will be handing him or her a long list of tough questions to confront. How do you build consensus in an increasingly diverse community that tends to segregate by race and income? How do you...

During his 27 years in local government, Bobbie Shields has worked with little fanfare on some of Mecklenburg County's most significant projects, including the new uptown baseball stadium and the Little Sugar Creek greenway expansion. But the firing...

A good idea is always worth borrowing, so when Artsplosure program director Terri Dollar saw street pianos in other cities, she knew she wanted the project here. "I thought it was the coolest thing," Dollar says. "And part of the mission of...

Duke Energy Progress shut down the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Wake County on Wednesday after the company discovered that the reactor vessel -- which holds the plant's nuclear fuel and contains the nuclear reaction -- showed early indications of...

A power line failure knocked out electricity service to 2,849 Progress Energy customers in the Knightdale area Thursday morning, Duke Energy said. Crews restored power to almost all of the customers in about an hour by rerouting power around the...

Duke Energy Progress shut down the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Wake County on Wednesday after the company discovered that the reactor vessel, which contains the plant's nuclear fuel, showed early indications of corrosion and cracking. The Nuclear...