Pisgah National Forest, outside of Brevard, North Carolina, is one of the few spots to catch a glimpse of this annual ...

For a variety of businesses in western N.C., a bustling summer tourism season is sorely needed to balance their books.

The flood threat across portions of Helene-ravaged western North Carolina is starting to wane on Tuesday morning after the ...

On Sunday at 2:49 p.m. the NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC issued a flood watch valid from Monday 10 a.m. until Tuesday 8 a.m.

A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Tennessee, felt as far as Atlanta and western North Carolina, with no significant ...

Western North Carolina is again being targeted by hazardous rainfall that forecasters say is expected to lead to its “first ...

The quake hit around 9 a.m. local time, about 13 miles from Greenback, Tennessee, which is about 30 miles south of Knoxville, ...

ASHEVILLE – If you felt a rumbling start to your Saturday morning, it might have been a hungry tummy, but more likely it was ...

At Grandfather Mountain nature park, the number of visitors lags behind norms in a trend echoed across western North Carolina ...

Western North Carolina is still recovering from Hurricane Helene's havoc, but the town of Lake Lure aims to have debris ...

Two Western North Carolina rivers have been placed on a yearly list of America's most endangered historic places, in the ...

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