Whether you refuse to accept them, or understand they are a part of city life on the Great Lakes, sewer overflows are a hot button topic. But what — or who — decides whether and when they happen? It's ...

Part of Joyner Park in Wake Forest is indefinitely closed while crews deal with the environmental impacts of an overflow they say could have been caused by cooking grease put down the drain. Crews are ...

Nearly three million gallons of sewage spilled in Rocky Mount in two weeks. In August alone, the city experienced 14 sewer spills within a five-day span – just days after another massive spill. The ...