People cause 99% of wildfires, and half of those are due to carelessness, according to the North Carolina Forest Service, all while climate change is making conditions worse.

The pine snake is one of the most interesting and robust reptiles you'll find slithering through the pine woods and sandy soils of North America. Belonging to the species Pituophis melanoleucus, these ...

OXFORD — Granville County Senior Services Director Kathy May was recognized for her decades of service to Granville County ...

Sheila Evans of Wilmington received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine award on Thursday, the highest civilian honor bestowed by ...

Former North Carolina Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti, groundbreaking essayist and educator Anna Julia Cooper, poet and professor Lenard Moore, bestselling novelist Kaye Gibbons, and Appalachian bard ...

In honor of World Rivers Day, International Paper (IP) and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) are celebrating ...

Managed and owned by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, the Aiken Gopher Tortoise Preserve is named for a reptile that ...

A tiny town in North Carolina that’s just been devastated ... Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, the community of Spruce Pine, population 2,194, is known for its hiking, local artists and ...

A tiny town in North Carolina that’s just been devastated by hurricane Helene could end up severely disrupting the global supply chain for microchips and solar panels. Nestled in the Appalachian ...

an initiative is underway to restore the ephemeral and seasonal wetlands embedded within the longleaf pine forests of the Savannah River watershed in South Carolina. These critical wetlands ...

nestled on a mountain between Spruce Pine and Little Switzerland, to find them. “My parents live in an absolute gem of the North Carolina mountains,” Perkins said in a post about his experience.