The number of people driving through barricades in the Bat Cave area has spiked, according to Henderson County officials.

So-called disaster tourists are causing a problem on the closed roads of Gerton and Bat Cave, where only residents, road crews, contractors, emergency responders and other authorized personnel are ...

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

The utility overcame numerous challenges while rebuilding its Mt. Storm to Valley line in extreme mountainous terrain.

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

Fire crews were able to contain the rest of the remaining 220-acre wildfire in the Crooked Creek community in McDowell County Thursday afternoon.

As of 6:30 p.m. Jan. 30, firefighters were continuing burnout operations in McDowell County on the North Fork Fire, which has ...

This response was yet another testament to the collaboration and dedication of emergency responders across western North ...

McDowell County residents are back home Thursday morning after a wildfire forced an evacuation the day before.

An outside fire has been reported on Bat Cave Road in Old Fort after a tree fell on a power line, local authorities said.

The first of three wildfires broke out just before 11 a.m. Wednesday after a tree fell on a powerline in the region of ...

A wildfire that burned an estimated 220 acres in McDowell County was likely sparked when high winds knocked down a power line ...