A footbridge that hikers use to cross the west branch of the Peabody River in the White Mountain National Forest is closed ...

Tennessee and North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains offer travelers glorious scenery to explore year-round. Home to the Great ...

What happens when government agencies try to sidestep the law and exclude the public on major projects?  Well, sometimes they ...

To most people, the Eckville shelter looks like an old tool shed, a throwback to our grandparents’ garages of yesteryear. For ...

Natural Lands, a non-profit land conservation organization, said Tuesday that it had purchased the property and transferred ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Striding confidently onto the 2017 Nashville music scene, Joe Hott is poised to become the next new ...

Saddle up your bike and ride the Loowit Tier, a 197-mile mountain bike route in the state’s southern Cascades range that was ...

The route follows single-track mountain bike trails, unpaved roads and 4×4 tracks through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest ...

As VP of Rowhouse Architects in Asheville, NC, Robin Raines has pledged 150 hours of pro bono design time to help those in ...

The species faces several potential threats, including habitat fragmentation from development, logging ... In 1985, the Smoky Mountain shrew was identified as a distinct species, while the Appalachian ...

Initial estimates from state and county assessors already place damages from Tuesday’s devastating flash flood at more than ...

As President Trump pledges to revive ‘beautiful’ coal, Virginia’s coal counties have largely moved on to new ventures. But ...