With recent freezing rain in WNC bringing down powerlines, Broad River Fire and Rescue in Black Mountain posted a shocking ...

World War II Pfc. Roland L. Bragg lived in Maine until his 1999 death and is remembered as a hero. He replaces the fort's ...

Roland Bragg, the namesake for Fort Liberty changing back to Fort Bragg, NC, was a 21-year-old paratrooper from Maine ...

There is a wildfire near Old Fort. McDowell County residents ... County could see the smokey air quality toward western North Carolina on Wednesday. Across the Carolinas, there is an elevated ...

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

A bad fire was likely. Did they do enough to get ... up having broader implications for how communities from Hawaii to North Carolina think about wildfires. Fire experts say that the deadly ...

At least 100 firefighters battled a wildfire ... Western North Carolina homes. The fire started Wednesday afternoon after a tree fell on a power line near 4131 Bat Cave Road in Old Fort, according ...

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

OLD FORT, N.C. (WTVD) -- Firefighters made progress on the wildfire in western North Carolina that prompted evacuations. The Crooked Creek fire in McDowell County is now 100% contained.

A viewer shared a video of the fire spreading around several homes three miles south of Old Fort. In the North Carolina mountains, gusts topped 60 mph causing hundreds of outages in Ashe County.

North Carolina’s McDowell County, still recovering from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, is facing yet another natural disaster in the form of wildfires. Old Fort, a town of roughly 800 ...