Nestled at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, this small town offers a combination of history, culture, and natural beauty ...

Amid staffing shortages at N.C. Forest Service, inmate firefighters in a state program are battling more WNC wildfires.

A pair of Polk County players have earned All-Western North Carolina recognition from the Citizen-Times in Asheville. Junior ...

The size and scale of these fires is rare outside of the Western United States, according to Ryan Searcy, the N.C. Forest ...

The burn ban in North Carolina is set to be lifted on Wednesday at 8 a.m. It went into effect on March 21 due to hazardous forest fire conditions. There are still several wildfires burning in North ...

The North Carolina Forest Service on Wednesday lifted a burn ban for all counties as wildfire conditions improve in the western portion of the state.

The Alarka Five Fire has now burned 1,515 acres and remains at 37% containment, according to Swain County Emergency ...

The National Weather Service forecast mild rain showers throughout March 31. Regional firefighters expect the rain to ...

A massive wildfire burning for more than a week in South Carolina jumped the border Saturday and was spreading Sunday into North Carolina, where firefighters were already battling multiple blazes, off ...

The weather has improved for firefighting, but wildfires continue to burn in WNC and the Upstate. Stay with the Citizen Times ...

Five hundred firefighting personnel have been battling the blazes in Polk County, where some residents have faced ... Burn bans are still in effect across all of North Carolina and South Carolina, and ...

"The wildfires in western North Carolina continue to grow, so I have expanded our State of Emergency,” Stein said in a statement. “Our State Emergency Response Team is responding with every tool at ...