Roughly 190,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service lands were impacted in Tropical Storm Helene, a Forest Service district ranger announced late last month.

Thankfully, western North Carolina didn’t wait on the bureaucracy for assistance. When FEMA faltered, first responders ...

Despite complicated politics of trying to rebuild and mitigate against future floods, local knowledge provides path for flexible solutions.

These three interconnected national park sites sit in different states, but offer one unforgettable scenic "sandwich" trip.

In early April, a U.S. Forest Service office in east Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest issued a memo inviting the public ...

The announcement was made Wednesday by Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick and second-term Republican President Donald Trump.

The value of FEMA’s assistance package to North Carolinians recovering from Hurricane Helene has eclipsed $1 billion.

Amid recovery from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, a state audit says an aid station's average cost equates to ...

Shelved plans from '60s for TVA project in NC unlikely to make comeback. Dam failures, costs and ecology will make new dams more rare.

The U.S. Interior Department said Thursday it has agreed to pause the multi-year Great American Outdoors Act road project between Blowing Rock and Beacon Heights "to accommodate pressing community rec ...

The brightly colored sign along the S-curve mountain road beckons visitors to the Gemstone Mine, the "#1 ATTRACTION IN ...