In 2021, Sarah and Brandon Jones moved to a floating cabin on Lake Fontana in western North Carolina. Even after renovations, living on the water was cheaper than land.

Two people fell of the front off a boat on Fontana Lake in North Carolina on Tuesday night, Brian Cookston, a North Carolina wildlife enforcement officer said. Dispatch said the boating incident ...

There are small towns and then there are Fontana Dam-size small towns. According to the 2020 census, there were only 13 people living in the Western North Carolina mountain town, but that number ...

According to the Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called Fontana Lake at the Wilderness Marina in the Greasy Branch area of Swain County for a body that was found floating in the water.

State officials are warning people to stay away from potentially toxic algae that’s growing in Fontana Lake, a scenic boating and fishing spot in North Carolina’s mountains. The algal bloom ...

In 1943, the federal government created Fontana Lake to provide power for a plant that made aluminum for airplanes. In exchange, the government offered to rebuild the 30-mile North Shore Road that ...

SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. — A body was pulled from a North Carolina lake on Saturday, according to Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran.Deputies responded to Fontana Lake at the Wilderness Marina in the ...

Fontana Lake is located on the southern border of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina, according to the National Park Service. “The body was found by two people fishing at ...