OLD FORT, N.C. — Firefighters continue to make progress against the North Fork Fire in McDowell County, which is now 65% ...

For 16 years, the Buffalo National River has denied explorers access to Arkansas’s longest cave and hundreds of others. Some ...

Rain wasn’t enough to extinguish the fire, and flames continued “in areas of extreme hurricane damage,” U.S. Forest Service ...

The fire started Wednesday afternoon after a tree fell on a power line near 4131 Bat Cave Road in Old Fort, according to a county government news release. High winds caused the fire to spread ...

On Wednesday and Thursday, firefighters in McDowell County were busy with three wildfires, including one near hurricane-damaged Old Fort. On Thursday morning ... for residents in the 3000-4500 block ...