Hendersonville, North Carolina, is a great mountain town situated south of Asheville and just north of the South Carolina ...

The region has a rich history of commercial mining, with abandoned mines dotting the landscape, and others still producing quartz so pure, it’s become a critical component of the tech industry.

Related: 5 Stunning Train Rides To Take In North Carolina Mine For Gems Pan for minerals and fossils at Doc's Rocks Gem Mine , an old-timey outfit on the edge of town.

North Carolina Department of Transportation crews will be able to take construction materials from the Pisgah National Forest to rebuild a section of Interstate 40 that washed out in Hurricane Helene.

CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C. — An iconic tourist attraction in an area of western North Carolina among the hardest hit by Hurricane Helene reopened to the public on Friday, nine months after the storm ...