Curtis Smalling has dedicated his career to protecting North Carolina’s birds, starting with surveys for Golden-winged Warblers near his hometown in Boone and working his way up to leading the ...

These remarkable landscapes once covered western North Carolina, but a long legacy of extractive logging and land clearing means there are few remaining areas of old-growth forests left in the state.

Fall is right around the corner, the time of year when the weather starts too cool down, days become shorter and leaves begin ...

Several states have placed important measures on their ballots, ranging from flag designs to end-of-life care.

A lucky turn in weather, effective firefighting and previous controlled burns helped limit a huge blaze in North Carolina’s ...

An old nemesis of North Carolina's pine forests is having a resurgence in other Southeastern states as southern pine beetle ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Gov. Roy Cooper joined Democratic state leaders Thursday hoping to send the message to keep tax dollars in public schools and stop the expansion of North Carolina’s Opportunity ...

The fox squirrel is the largest tree squirrel in North Carolina ... longleaf pine and open pine-oak forests in the sandhills and southern coastal plain,” the release said, but has been verified in ...

A particularly bright fireball recently lit up Appalachia as it streaked across the night sky before vanishing over North Carolina ... and was right with the tree line on our property and then ...

A “very bright” fireball (top left in photo) was recently seen soaring above much of Appalachia before it disappeared over North Carolina ... was right with the tree line on our property ...