The approach to Linville Caverns sets the stage perfectly for the underground adventure that awaits. Nestled in McDowell County along US Highway 221, the rustic stone visitor center blends ...

Coastal geologist Stanley R. Riggs has spent more than six decades studying North Carolina’s barrier islands, documenting how they shift and evolve as living systems shaped by wind, waves and ...

There’s a town tucked into the North Carolina foothills where your mortgage payment might actually leave you enough money for groceries, and nobody’s trying to convince you it’s the next Brooklyn.

As the fall season kicks off across Western North Carolina, the big question always comes up: Why don't the leaves all change at once?

Remnants from Humberto and Imelda may reach Ireland and the United Kingdom next week. North Carolinians should monitor two areas of tropical interest this weekend: one in the eastern Atlantic and ...

The two western North Carolina-based herbalists led a walking tour of 15 nature lovers through the gardens and educated them on the benefits of many plants.

A North Carolina city exudes the “true meaning of community” — and it’s been crowned the “Nicest Place in America,” a new report finds. Asheville ranks No. 1 on a list of places where people show the ...