Marion man filed a lawsuit against Spruce Pine and its police force, claiming he was in diabetic shock when officers struck ...

Democrats wanted to file a discharge petition to try to force a Helene bill with $435 million in relief funding out of Senate ...

A man unable to communicate because he was experiencing a medical emergency was not given help and instead beaten, tased, and ...

A North Carolina man has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Spruce Pine police officers of beating, tasing, and arresting him ...

One of the officers is accused of hitting him at least 11 times while the man was on the ground, then a second officer used ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane ...

No other place on Earth has as much or as minable pure quartz as Spruce Pine, in western North Carolina. It’s a geological Goldilocks, as raw minerals are in high demand and China is tightening ...

Spruce Pine is a town in Mitchell County, North Carolina, with a population of 2,204. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other necessities for a ...

The remnants of Hurricane Helene ripped through the Western North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine last week, disrupting a quartz facility integral to the global production of solar panels ...