Extensive personnel shortages at the NC Forest Service hampered the agency’s ability to manage the wildfires that raged in ...

Conservationists say a new management plan will dramatically increase logging in national forests that have already been thinned out by Hurricane Helene.

THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER WILDFIRES BURNING ACROSS THE STATE, ACCORDING TO THE STATE FOREST SERVICE. CREWS ARE BATTLING BLAZES IN LINCOL The North Carolina Forest Service has issued a burn ban for ...

Rain over the weekend helped fire crews in the region, and they hope more rain and thunderstorms will suppress wildfires further.

Federal officials say two wildfires spreading in western North Carolina have burned more than 2 square miles of wooded area.