Spend your next vacation enjoying the arts and the outdoors in the hiking capital of Western North Carolina. Here's where to ...

Wildfires have already burned more than 24,000 acres this year, so packing an evacuation kit and tracking fire maps are ...

After devastating floods last year, many Western NC mountain towns are open for business and need your dollars. Here’s where ...

Route that African Americans fleeing the Ku Klux Klan took from Cross Anchor, S.C., to western North Carolina to establish ... Perkins-Valdez find documents, maps and other records pertaining ...

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — Residents living in parts of western North Carolina saw hail ... Dog sniffs hail in Forest City, N.C. on May 8, 2025. (Photo: Joey Allen) Hail fell in Forest ...

So far, most of the cicadas added to this year’s Cicada Safari map are in western North Carolina and parts of Tennessee. As of May 2, cicadas have been photographed in the following areas ...

The North Carolina House has advanced another Hurricane Helene funding package to address pressing needs in the mountains ...

but more likely it was an earthquake that rocked Western North Carolina. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there was a 4.1 magnitude earthquake at 9:04 a.m. May 10. USGS maps show that the ...

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake shook Western North Carolina and East Tennessee May 10, 2025. This map shows the intensity of the earthquake, measured in MMI. Caruso said the earthquake in the ...

After four months of, ProPublica found that the warnings about Helene were eerily accurate. Yet, local residents remained ...

It's really huge for things like roads and police and (firefighters) and things that are subsequently funded to that sales tax that comes into the counties and the cities," explained Scott Peacock ...

“As our mountain economies worked to recover from Helene, our Piedmont and coastal destinations remained popular and contributed to the growth of North Carolina’s tourism economy. We must continue to ...