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 ...

Over a week after Helene made landfall in the United States, the cleanup efforts continue in towns like Spruce Pine in the ...

Melissa and Jonah Greene traveled from their home in Belmont to check on family in Spruce Pine just days after Helene. This ...

Every now and then, I get a bug up my butt to drive long distances. Part of the motivation is to see forest types that I don’t normally get to see in the Lake States. Forest management varies from ...

State lawmakers should ensure school employees in hurricane-ravaged parts of North Carolina can still get paid while schools are out, North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine ...

Folks who live in this area coming here to this visitor’s center just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. It’s the only place in the ...

A Knoxville couple is home after being stuck in Spruce Pine, North Carolina for several days following the storms.

After Helene tore through North Carolina, Beth Holmes couldn’t get in touch with her grandmother. So she and her family set ...

One man hospitalized in North Carolina last saw his fiancee before a landslide separated them. Families from out of state are ...

The convoy pushed on to Spruce Pine, past smashed cars in corn fields, and past a Dollar General shoveling out from under two ...

For more than three-and-a-half hours, Sam Perkins said he hiked 11 miles and 2,200 feet high to finally reach his parents' home near Spruce Pine.