Perched in Western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Asheville is steeped in equal parts artsy innovation and Appalachian tradition. Drawing inspiration and ingredients from its lushly forested, ...

Annual cicadas are seen, and heard, every summer in North Carolina. They are large, usually black, green and brown in color ...

Brood XIV is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that emerge every 13 or 17 years. This year they'll be in states such as ...

Protestors Noel Nickel, left, and Ron Kaz demonstrate in the rain outside the scheduled execution of South Carolina inmate Mikal Mahdi in Columbia, S.C., Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/David ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair ...

The Table Rock wildfire burning in South ... Carolina, there are eight active wildfires in Caldwell, Buncombe, Polk, Jackson, Haywood and Swain counties, according to an interactive map by ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley autographs a ...

A map that shows the locations of the Table ... Severe thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts were forecast for Monday from western South Carolina to the central part of the state.