Parks and hiking trails in Catawba, Burke and McDowell counties are still being repaired four months after Hurricane Helene ...

The North Fork Fire is burning in areas of heavy damage from Hurricane Helene near the Woodlawn Community in McDowell County, NC. The fire is located on Graveyard Mountain, east of Highway 221 and ...

Foothills Conservancy of NC opens new hiking trail in South Mountains of Burke County in honor of founding board member Bob ...

MCDOWELL COUNTY, N.C. (WSPA) – Firefighters are continuing to work to put out a more than 600-acre wildfire in McDowell County. According to the National Forest Service, the North Fork Fire ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — West Virginia’s official travel magazine for 2025 has been unveiled, and anyone can request a free ...

BURKE COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A man is dead and another is hurt after a crash in Burke County Saturday morning, officials say. Troopers responded to Rhodhiss Road near Monteith Lane around ...

In northern McDowell ... County. The bridge on U.S. Highway 221 North next to Mountain Paradise Campground is expected to be replaced with a temporary bridge by the end of this month, Kehler said. The ...

The 2025 West Virginia Vacation Guide was announced by Governor Patrick Morrisey. According to a press release, the 2025 West ...

McDowell County, the southernmost county in West Virginia (WV), was created in 1858 and named in honor of James McDowell, the governor of Virginia from 1824 until 1844. Its county seat is at Welch.

Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been ...

In Burke County, about 320 votes are being challenged. In McDowell County, about 225 votes are being challenged. In Catawba County, about 710 votes are being challenged, and in Iredell County ...

The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and revitalize resources.