Blue Ridge Conservancy, located at 416 Aho Rd., has partnered with local landowners to permanently protect more than 20,000 ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — We will likely see impacts of a near-certain government shutdown here in western North Carolina. Dr. Chris Cooper, a professor of political science at Western Carolina ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — If there is a government shutdown, there would be local impacts in western North Carolina. According to a March 2024 Department of the Interior plan, National Park Service ...

Every October, thousands of people gather in the small mountain town of Banner Elk, North Carolina to predict the duration of winter. But instead of a famous groundhog in the spotlight, the job ...

On September 27, 2024, Hurricane Helene brought 100-mile per hour winds to the mountains of Western North Carolina and dropped up to 30 inches of rain. The devastation was swift and heartbreaking and ...

BEAVER DAM GAP - With 90% of the Blue Ridge Parkway restored since it was devastated by Tropical Storm Helene last year, National Park Service and federal highway officials celebrated its reopening on ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- A 26-mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway has reopened in western North Carolina -- just in time for the busy fall season -- marking a major milestone in the state's recovery ...

Poore’s business transports mountain bikers to various points along the Blue Ridge Parkway for downhill adventures along the Appalachian Mountains across western North Carolina. Helene devastated the ...

THANK YOU CHRIS. A NEW MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BRIDGE ON THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY OVER INTERSTATE 26, IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY IS JUST DAYS AWAY NOW FROM OPENING. YET ENGINEERS SAY THIS NEW BRIDGE WAS NEEDED TO ...

Climate Change Comes for the House of the Seven Gables One of the World’s Largest Geothermal Networks Is Buried Beneath a Corporate Campus in Rural Wisconsin A Short-Lived Win in a Never-Ending Fight ...