The fire is happening while Western North Carolina is under an increased fire danger warning due to gusty winds, making it ...

Hurricane Helene devastated the town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, shutting down mining operations for pure quartz, a critical component for microchips and solar panels. An Airbnb owner from ...

County briefings go live every Wednesday at 11 a.m. The Feb. 12 briefing covered the effects of stormy weather in the region ...

Sending a slew of social media posts, a reader asks what Amish and Mennonite groups were doing in the area after Tropical ...

Question: I've been seeing posts online about how groups of Amish and Mennonite volunteers have come down to help build homes in Western North Carolina ... I was in Spruce Pine talking to business ...

Previously, Young was the finance director for town of Spruce Pine since ... before becoming the finance director in Spruce Pine. Young obtained a master’s degree in accounting from the University of ...

Firefighters responded to a massive motel fire in Jackson County, North Carolina, on Tuesday night.The EBCI Cherokee Fire and Rescue with assistance from numerous agencies responded to the ...

A wildfire that McDowell County Emergency Management called "out of control" erupted in the western North Carolina town of Old Fort on Wednesday ... As of Wednesday evening, the blaze, dubbed the ...