On Friday, Aug. 29, the 79th annual North Carolina Apple Festival kicks off in downtown Hendersonville, just under a month ...

Wildfire season is not over for Western North Carolina. After fires burned for weeks in March, new fires have broken out in April. The largest of these, the Haoe Fire, was burning 500 acres in the ...

At least 18 youth summer camps across North Carolina stand on or are very near federally designated floodways and flood zones ...

According to the N.C. Forest Service wildfire map, by 8 p.m. Wednesday, the fire had grown to 175 acres and was 0% contained. The U.S. Forest Service and the North Carolina Forest Service are ...

North Carolina's western region was hit hard by Hurricane Helene in September. The hurricane damaged or impacted 5,000 miles of state-maintained roads and damaged 7,000 private roads, bridges and ...

A K-MAX helicopter, also being utilized on North Carolina wildfires, can carry 420 gallons. N.C. Forest Service helicopters have been carrying 200 to 300 gallons.

Hurricane Helene tore through western North Carolina last fall, toppling an estimated 822,000 acres of timber and washing debris into river valleys and steep mountain slopes. That storm is still ...

The largest fires in Western North Carolina were the Deep Woods and Black Cove fires in Polk County not far from the S.C. border, that forced evacuations and were burning over a combined 4,621 ...