Nowhere is the rebuild more evident than in downtown Spruce Pine, where Amy O'Conner owns a building full of businesses with her husband, Danny Barcelona. Closest to the North Toe River on Locust ...

An “out of control” wildfire fire has been reported off of Bat Cave Road south of Old Fort in McDowell County.

Three Helene-impacted families in western North Carolina are now one step closer ... Through the support of the community, families from Spruce Pine, Burnsville and Weaverville were able to ...

MARION, N.C. — A popular tourist destination in western North Carolina is set to reopen this week after being closed ...

The city of Marion has a new finance director, Crystal Craigo Young. Young officially assumed her role after taking her oath ...

With the county’s supermarket, downtown restaurants, manufacturing sites and prisons struggling to reopen in the wake of Tropical Storm Helene, Mitchell County now has the highest unemployment rate in ...

but also Spruce Pine Republican Sen. Ralph Hise as deputy president pro tempore. In his remarks, Hise focused on the lasting impact of Helene in Western North Carolina. One change in Senate ...