Alexander Katchalov, a 28-year-old registered sex offender, is now charged with two counts of lewd or lascivious battery on a ...

Last August, the battery startup Natron Energy announced it would create more than 1,000 jobs at a massive new factory near ...

The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) began assessing all trout waters in January 2025 and while most ...

Republican candidates, three of them incumbents, easily won Tuesday’s five elections for seats in the Florida Legislature in districts that contain parts of Polk County. The results continue a ...

Both great-grandparents said they had taken the children to bathe at a motel and a friend’s home, according to the affidavit.

Polk County officials have released the name of the victim involved in a fatal incident at Big Bradley Falls over the weekend ...

A woman died over the weekend after falling at least 75 feet from a hiking trail while visiting a waterfall in North Carolina, according to officials.

A hiker has died after investigators said she fell from 75 to 100 feet from a waterfall in North Carolina over the weekend.

Ticas’ death marked the second time in a week in which someone died at a North Carolina waterfall. On July 6, a climber died ...

A woman has died after falling nearly 100 feet from a trailhead in Polk County, North Carolina, over the weekend.Around 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Polk County Communications received a 911 call reporting an ...

One person was killed July 13 in an accident at Big Bradley Falls in Saluda. A woman in her mid- to late-20s fell from a ...

Polk County officials have identified the woman who died in a waterfall accident over the weekend as 29-year-old Astrid Angelina Madrid Ticas.