The eastern box turtle represents holding on and surviving, sticking its neck out, which led to its status as a state symbol ...

President Donald Trump signed executive orders to effectively slash environmental protections on more than half of the nation ...

Fortunately, Tennessee and North Carolina — the two states that share Great Smoky Mountains National Park — each have plenty of amazing Great Smoky Mountains alternatives. On the Tennessee side, the ...

A massive, extinct salamander with jaws like a vice once roamed ancient Tennessee and its fossil has just rewritten what we thought we knew about Appalachian amphibians. Named Dynamognathus ...

I-40 is closed at the Tennessee/North Carolina state line after a rockslide and flooding. Here's what you should know.

Korey Hampton sees progress every day as she works along the French Broad River. But, nine months after Hurricane Helene, ...

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting ...

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn ...

They most often walk from south to north, starting in Springer Mountain, Georgia, and wrapping up 13 states later at Maine’s Mount Katahdin. The trek typically takes six months but the current speed ...