Shelved plans from '60s for TVA project in NC unlikely to make comeback. Dam failures, costs and ecology will make new dams ...

One person is dead and at least 12 others were injured in a mass shooting in North Carolina. The shooting took place at about 12:45 a.m. in Hickory, a city in Catawba County. One victim is in ...

Hurricanes have gotten larger and wetter because of climate change and inland communities are at greater risk from heavy ...

Elizabeth Williams, Executive Director of Mountain Aging Partners (MAP), has been awarded the 2025 Trailblazer Award by the Land of Sky Regional Council. The honor was presented by Buncombe County ...

News 13 has learned that a Helene recovery program that could've funded 1,000 temporary housing trailers ended up buying just ...

Two out of the three fires are completely or almost completely contained. The third hasn't grown in 24 hours. Here's what we know.

March wildfires have impacted parts of Western North Carolina, as well as the South Carolina Upstate. The largest fires in WNC were in the the Black Cove Complex in Polk and Henderson counties ...

This map shows the extent of the Black Cove ... March 28, for many Western North Carolina counties. Henderson and Transylvania counties are under Code Purple. Code Purple is very unhealthy air ...

BUT WE BEGIN AT NOON RIGHT NOW WITH THE WILDFIRES IN THE CAROLINAS, THREE FIRES CONTINUE TO BURN IN POLK COUNTY ... OF SEVERELY DAMAGED WOODS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. HELENE, DAMAGE THAT ...

(Map/North Carolina Forest Service) Transylvania County Chairman Jason Chappell declared ... The fire expanded its eastern, western and southern perimeters, jumping west of Highway 276 and south ...