WorldAtlas writers included Boone, Bryson City and more on a list of the "coolest" NC towns for a 2025 summer vacation.

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 ...

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 ...

Widely revered as a metaphorical pet heaven, the Rainbow Bridge will now have a literal location in the Port City for ...

Severe storms threaten Helene-ravaged western North Carolina ... wind gusts in an area covering cities like Knoxville, Tennessee, and Asheville, North Carolina, where many communities are still ...

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 ...

So far, most of the cicadas added to this year’s Cicada Safari map are in western North Carolina, southern Kentucky and parts of Tennessee. This spring, residents can expect to see cicadas from ...

Hundreds of towns are under evacuation orders in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region where Russian forces are focussing their ...

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 ...

Two Western North Carolina river corridors have been placed ... from beloved tourist attractions to small towns. "In the 19th and 20th centuries, Asheville became a major industrial, economic ...

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 ...