While many national and state parks in Western North Carolina remain closed after Helene's destruction, Gorges State Park is ...

South Mountains State Park will begin to reopen March 17, with the main entrance becoming accessible sometime in April.

Last week, we looked at Ararat settlers Rodeham and Elizabeth Moore, their son William Jesse Moore, his wife, Jane Hanby ...

Last week the Surry County Board of Commissioners finalized details of a plan to reclaim some of the losses county officials ...

North Carolina is home to some impressive architecture and interesting cultural centers. WorldAtlas highlighted eight towns ...

Surry County Schools commissioned a ten-year facilities plan using the services of Bill Powell, who previously conducted such ...

The NWS Blacksburg VA issued an updated severe thunderstorm warning at 7:43 a.m. on Wednesday in effect until 8 a.m. The ...

Strong winds and dry conditions prompted the National Park Service on Saturday to ban campfires and charcoal use until further notice in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Both the North ...

Both the North Carolina and Tennessee sides of the park fall under the ban, rangers said in a “high fire danger” alert at 3:19 p.m. Nine wildfires erupted in the N.C. mountains and northeast ...

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 ...

A raccoon that encountered a family’s dogs after wandering into a yard in south Gastonia on Wednesday tested positive for rabies, police said Saturday. The two dogs killed the raccoon outside ...

WAYNESVILLE, N.C. -- A stretch of Interstate 40 through the western North Carolina mountains is reopening to traffic this weekend, months after Hurricane Helene's historic flooding collapsed ...