Grandfather Mountain, the not-for-profit nature park run by the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, is installing ...

May 19, 2026 The following are recent obituary notices from Austin and Barnes and Hampton funeral homes in Boone and ...

Crowders Mountain State Park in Kings Mountain, North Carolina offers a refreshing alternative, a place where you can trade ...

The original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, settled down and raised a family in Mount Airy, North Carolina, just before ...

North Carolina still has small towns where porch views, old storefronts, and mountain roads make the map feel like it left ...

We hit 89 degrees in Greensboro on Sunday, but many Triad highs reached the low 90s in area of Yanceyville, Burlington, ...

Staunton, Va.'s Thornrose Cemetery is a stone's throw from my desk. Just over the hill. Some 1,700 Confederate dead are buried there. The general monument says that there are 20 Arkansas men among the ...

Grandfather Mountain will celebrate the beauty of the spring season with its annual Rhododendron Rambles, a series of guided ...

The headwaters of the world-famous New River are right here in the High Country, with a few creeks combining in Boone to form ...

NORTH CAROLINA, USA — Black bear sightings and encounters are rising across the North Carolina Piedmont, including the ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina. In Murphy, North Carolina, a peaceful mountain town once defined by ...