The four-state mountain region that includes Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to an estimated 14,500 black bears, but one particular animal had caught the attention of a watchful police ...

Botzet compared this information against similar data from an additional 37 bears that had not been engaged in conflict, which she captured and released in the Pigeon River Gorge, near release ...

The land available to the NCDOT for quarrying is spread across seven sites in the Pisgah, all within 3 miles to the south and west of where the Pigeon River washed out much of I-40 near the North ...

The unidentified body was found in Cape Fear River on Tuesday, March 18, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. The body has been taken to the state’s medical examiner ...

During a March 5 Western North Carolina Rail Committee meeting ... repairs being made along Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River ...

Five months after Hurricane Helene severed a critical Appalachian freight corridor, a 12-mile stretch of Interstate 40 through North Carolina’s Pigeon River Gorge reopened Saturday. Though still ...

Damage from Hurricane Helene flooding is seen along eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 near the North ... section on the North Carolina side of the border will officially reopen on Saturday. Flooding in ...

Interstate 40 along the Pigeon River Gorge ... mountains finally reopens. It will come with a couple of caveats. With the one lane setup lasting approximately 12 miles from Exit 7 in North ...

Interstate 40 collapsed along the Pigeon River Gorge in North Carolina, only miles from the Tennessee border in the Appalachian Mountains. Damage from the Helene caused this portion of I-40 to ...