Maryland is home to multiple types of ticks, which can spread disease. Here's what to look out for and how to avoid ...

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

Another fire, the Bee Rock Branch Fire, near Little Switzerland in McDowell County started April 14 and has grown to 175 ...

As wildfires become more common and catastrophic, the shortage of trained personnel across the state makes communities ...

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

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court sided Friday with the trailing Republican candidate in an extremely close ...

The politicized nature of the contests was illustrated starkly on Friday when a Republican-majority appellate panel in North ...

A special use permit will allow NCDOT to “use rock from Forest Service land and extract construction materials from the ...

Rainfall on Sunday helped North Carolina firefighters keep control of a trio of wildfires that have now burned 7,672 acres in Western North Carolina, the N.C. Forest Service said. Additional rain ...