Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

“North Carolina has a lot of homes in the wildland urban interface, or more people living with a higher fire risk,” Dello said. Any trees downed by Helene that do not burn this year will still ...

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the ...

Nestled in Tennessee’s northeastern corner where the Appalachian Mountains reach for the clouds, Roan Mountain State Park ...

A ban on all open burning in North Carolina will be lifted as of 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 2. A statewide ban went into effect ...

The weather has improved for firefighting, but wildfires continue to burn in WNC and the Upstate. Stay with the Citizen Times Monday for live updates ...

Researchers thought colder temperatures and higher elevations could stop the march of invasive fire ants across NC. Mother Nature had other ideas.

Burn bans are still in effect across all of North Carolina and South Carolina, and fire risks persist. The Table Rock Fires, that started March 21, peaked at nearly 11,000 acres and is South ...

Sean Rayford/Getty Images As the fire spread across the border into North Carolina, the South Carolina Forestry Commission said firefighters had upped containment of the fire from 0% on Saturday ...

As the Table Rock Complex Fire continues to spread, jumping the state line into Transylvania County, North Carolina, it has now become the largest mountain wildfire in South Carolina history.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of California on new state maps published Monday, as fire officials rush to keep up with the impacts of climate change on the Golden ...