The East Fork Pigeon River rose by just over a foot from 3:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, and by another 3.5 feet from 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to preliminary USGS stream gauge data.

In preparation for the big day in Western North Carolina’s trout ... 90 miles of delayed harvest trout waters, which include the West Fork of the Pigeon River in Haywood County and the North ...

“I would like to make that my home one day,” Woody Platt would say when he passed by the white 1930s farmhouse nestled between rolling hills, with the East Fork of the French Broad River winding ...

There’s a place that lived in Woody Platt’s imagination long before he set foot there —the place where the East Fork of the French Broad, fed by cold mountain creeks, flows into the river’s ...