Road closures in Western North Carolina from NCDOT on Tuesday, Oct. 1. Interstate 40, a major thoroughfare through the Southern Appalachians, is closed in some areas in both directions: ...

On Friday, Aug. 29, the 79th annual North Carolina Apple Festival kicks off in downtown Hendersonville, just under a month ...

A new map shows which portions of western North Carolina are open for tourists. The map by Felt assigns the following categories to counties: Green: Welcoming visitors Yellow: Check website/call ...

People leaving the Asheville area should use I-40 East or I-26 East. Click or tap here to view an interactive map of road closures in western North Carolina. Data from DriveNC.gov ...

With much of Western North Carolina under moderate drought or abnormally dry conditions, wildfires are burning in the region. The largest fires in WNC were the Deep Woods and Black Cove fires in ...

Burn bans in Western NC A burn ban was still in place for all of North Carolina as of March 31. Great Smoky Mountains National Park also has issued a burn ban.

At least 18 youth summer camps across North Carolina stand on or are very near federally designated floodways and flood zones ...

FOX Carolina has a list of towns and other areas in western North Carolina that are now open to visitors as well as those that have not opened following the devastation left by Helene.

Chris Cooper, an expert on state politics at Western Carolina University, says Republicans have the most to gain from the new districts. “They are what we expected,” Chris Cooper said.