Drift smoke from western North Carolina wildfires continues to affect McDowell County and the burn ban remains in effect. “Smoke is expected to intensify through Friday," reads a statement from ...

“The wildfires in western North Carolina continue to grow, so I have expanded our state of emergency,” Stein said in the ...

The Black Cove Fire has burned 3,000 acres, the Deep Woods Fire 3,231 acres and Fish Hook Fire 199 acres. A new blaze, the ...

They are threatening areas of Henderson County. The Table Rock Fire in the South Carolina ... McDowell, Mecklenburg, Mitchell ...

Wildfires have been burning in Western North Carolina since March 19, leading to states of emergency, burned homes and evacuations. The fires have continued to grow, covering thousands of acres ...

Wildfires continue to rage in Western North Carolina and the South Carolina Upstate. Stay with the Citizen Times Saturday for ...

Evacuation orders were issued Sunday for parts of Polk County, North Carolina, where three large wildfires have burned more ...

"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 ...

Three stubborn North Carolina wildfires burning for nearly a week in the same county continue to give firefighters a tough ...

As the Table Rock Complex Fire continues to spread, jumping the state line into Transylvania County, North Carolina ... is in place for Haywood, Macon, McDowell, Rutherford and Swain counties.

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

We have responded to a total of 66 illegal burns since Friday at 8 a.m.,” Catawba County Fire Marshal Troy Scott said on ...