As of 9 a.m., the Rattlesnake Branch fire in Cruso was 0% contained. The fire continues to burn westward into the Shining ...

The N.C. Department of Transportation and its contractors will be able to mine stone from Pisgah National Forest to help ...

Wildfires continue to rage in Western North Carolina and the South Carolina Upstate. Stay with the Citizen Times Friday for live updates.

Conservationists say a new management plan will dramatically increase logging in national forests that have already been ...

North Carolina faces increasing risks of wildfires, wind damage and flooding. The legislature needs to shape an equally ...

Officials with the North Carolina Forest Service are reminding people it’s illegal to fly drones in the same airspace as ...

The Shining Rock Designated Wilderness Area and a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway remained closed on Friday as wildfires ...

The groups said the Forest Service plan’s flaws — including clear-cutting for timber — are magnified by the damage from ...

Firefighters from the USDA Forest Service, the North Carolina Forest Service and nearby counties continue to make progress to contain the Rattlesnake Branch Fire.

In parts of Polk County, it was hard to tell that just a few miles north of Columbus, some of nearly 500 firefighters from ...

The North Carolina Forest Service is working to establish dozer lines in the Headwaters State Forest area ahead of ...

Evacuations are now underway in Henderson and Polk counties in North Carolina due to wildfires in the Black Cove area. For ...