To encourage children to plant and care for one tree is a hand-off of a little responsibility, a gesture of hope. It is a ...

Levi Geyer, owner of Fancy Twig Farm, is one of a small handful of producers in the country foraging, crushing and extruding oil from yellowbud hickory tree nuts.

State Sen. Tim Moffitt, who lives atop Bearwallow Mountain above the hard-hit Hickory Nut Gorge, says if state officials want to exempt the reconstruction of Helene-damaged buildings from ...

This groundbreaking achievement marks the first de-extinction of a species, reviving the dire wolf after 12,500 years. The pups exhibit distinctive features of the extinct creature, opening doors ...

Seventy-First's Jayson Franklin pushes through Hickory's defense during the first quarter of the NCHSAA 3A football championship game at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill on Friday ...

Steven Hildebrand and the 65-and-over Hickory softball team are in line for a three-peat. Last year, the Hickory team won the championship game at the North Carolina State Senior Games 15-0.

Chimney Rock State Park's 315-foot namesake, a freestanding rock spire overlooking Hickory Nut Gorge and Lake Lure, has been closed since Helene wreaked havoc across Western North Carolina.

The park is working through these repairs and projects now. Chimney Rock State Park's 315-foot namesake, a freestanding rock spire overlooking Hickory Nut Gorge and Lake Lure, has been closed since ...