A horse has been stranded on a gravel bar in the Yellowstone River near Mullowney Lane since Thursday evening.

It took several months to clean up the river, clogged with debris from Helene, but the Elk River Falls Area in the Pisgah National Forest is back open.

A 17-year-old Elk River girl's death has been officially ruled a homicide. Zoe Kpanlin was shot in the chest July 1 near the intersection of Lakeland Avenue North and 70th Avenue North in Brooklyn ...