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

Some residents call 15th street the heart of Washington, but some feel proposed construction plans could stop that heart from ...

Spend your next vacation enjoying the arts and the outdoors in the hiking capital of Western North Carolina. Here's where to ...

So far this year, more than 4,000 wildfires have burned more than 24,000 acres of woodlands in North Carolina ... s interactive wildfire-tracking map. U.S. Forest Service If you get a whiff ...

Stay up to date with the location and size of fires with our North Carolina wildfire and smoke map. The map is interactive, is updated hourly and provides detailed information on each fire.

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 ...

according to the North Carolina Forest Service wildfire map. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service warned that the Carolinas would face fire danger throughout the rest of the week.

NORTH CAROLINA — Six months after Hurricane Helene ... updating flood plain maps, which will determine eligibility for federal rebuilding funds. “We’re not going to do that again.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — One of two Virginia men who have spent decades in prison for the 1998 murder of a Waverly police officer after a federal jury found them not guilty was released from ...

The men shot him in the woods behind Waverly Village Apartment Complex. Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne — now dubbed the "Waverly Two" — stood accused of killing officer Gibson.

In the map below, you can see active incidents in the area marked as red, with active incidents in McDowell County. The full data is available at the North Carolina Forest Service website.