Standing under an eastern hemlock tree near a thicket of lizard’s tail in her backyard — a tick’s dream — Casey Hamaker had ...

Small slices of national forest in South Carolina, mostly in the mountains, would be affected by a federal plan that could ...

As an epicenter of infection, The Natural State may hold clues to what’s driving its rise, how it functions — and what comes next.

Diagnoses of the severe, tick-borne allergy are rising throughout the Mississippi Basin. The frontlines of the disease offer lessons.

A highly toxic plant sometimes mistaken for edible lookalikes is turning up in more places across North Carolina. Poison ...

GLENVILLE — A bug smaller than a pencil eraser has crawled over the state’s hemlock trees, causing damage and tree death throughout. Glenville received a $19,005 Department of Environmental ...

It's not every day that you can walk through a wilderness that's 200 miles away from where it should be. But at this unique ...

Rick Wise let his imagination wander for a bit, thinking about an oak tree that's about 50 years older than our country. "If that tree could talk," said Wise, an Army veteran, military historian and ...

Every year, NFL teams take a chance on undrafted free agents, giving them a shot at an NFL roster spot if they can survive the brutal culling a summer session brings. More often than not, they don't ...

It may seem innocuous, often confused with edible lookalikes, but this plant popping up in more places in North Carolina is deadly. Poison Hemlock, a weed in the carrot family, is highly toxic and can ...

TOWNSEND, Tenn. — Appalachian Bear Rescue said it rescued its first black bear cub in a year and a half. ABR said the male cub, known as Hemlock, arrived at their facility on Tuesday after being ...