Due to its idyllic weather, Highlands is one of North Carolina’s cool mountain towns to beat the summer heat on a weekend. Travelers can enjoy warm summers with average temperatures ranging from ...

Wit Tuttell, the executive director of Visit NC, announced the 2025 Cycle North Carolina “Mountains to Coast” route. The twenty-sixth annual ride is scheduled for a Lake Lure to Fort Fisher ...

HAYWOOD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA — Our foraging party nibbles lemony mountain sorrel and delicate violets as we hike past forested valleys of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on our ...

Trout are big business in western North Carolina — bringing the region $1.4 billion a year in tourism revenue. But they’re ...

Closed indefinitely from milepost 217 to milepost 469, from the Virginia and North Carolina state line down to U.S. 441 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Blowing Rock Closed.

North Carolina has plenty of unusual landmarks and roadside attractions - WorldAtlas writers chose eight of the strangest, including several from Western N.C. Built in 1926 and renovated in 1996 ...

DURANGO, Colo., May 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Inc. (Nasdaq: RMCF) (the “Company”, “we”, or “RMCF”), America’s Chocolatier™ and a leading ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Days of torrential rains in North Carolina culminating with tropical downpours from what was Hurricane Helene have led to officials keeping a close eye on a major dam, the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- North Carolina has made the record books for many things, especially the aftermath of hurricanes, like Helene and Debby in 2024, and it hasn't stopped the flow of travelers ...

A mudslide also sent at least one lane of I-40 into the swollen Pigeon River at the North Carolina-Tennessee state line, closing the the highway in both directions, transportation officials said.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Days of torrential rains in North Carolina culminating with tropical downpours from what was Hurricane Helene have led to officials keeping a close eye on a major dam, the ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Days of torrential rains in North Carolina culminating with tropical downpours from what was Hurricane Helene have led to officials keeping a close eye on a major dam, the ...