While warm sunshine has made for a pleasant past few days out and around the Tri-Lakes’ communities, it’s been a completely different reality in the backcountry. The early March thaw has wreaked havoc ...

Making critical infrastructure investments today will allow western North Carolina to better withstand future disasters and enable communities to recover faster than before." ...

From its headwaters in Transylvania County, the French Broad River flows freely for 75 miles before hitting the 122-year-old Craggy Dam in Woodfin. Environmentalists and outdoorspeople have long ...

The dam is more than 100 years old and hasn’t produced hydropower in nearly two decades. Officials say removing it will reconnect almost 70 miles of river.