Wildfires have already burned more than 24,000 acres this year, so packing an evacuation kit and tracking fire maps are ...

Spend your next vacation enjoying the arts and the outdoors in the hiking capital of Western North Carolina. Here's where to ...

Travelers in search of charming downtown areas, outdoor recreation, and sweeping vistas should set their sights on these ...

Darlene Summerford, was bitten twice after her husband, Glenn, forced her to stick her hand inside a cage of snakes.

With warm (and soon hot) temperatures across North Carolina, snakes are out and about. Here in the Triangle, that means some of us might be seeing venomous copperheads as we visit parks and trails ...

There’s another snake that lives in North Carolina that you really, really shouldn’t try to catch or kill: the Eastern kingsnake. Eastern kingsnakes may be found across the eastern United ...

Getty Thousands of North Carolina residents were left in the dark — all thanks to one snake. A spokesperson for Duke Energy, which provides electric utilities to customers in North Carolina ...

Over 10,000 people in North Carolina were without power earlier this week due to an unlikely suspect: a snake, according to reports. North Carolina's Durham area faced a power outage that lasted ...

According to North Carolina geologists, Pilot Mountain and its ridges were once ... stories of church members' encounters with wolves and snakes. McKelvey's latest book is titled "Lessons of ...

A highly venomous snake was captured after escaping during a crash on a North Carolina interstate, officials said. The crash happened just after midnight Tuesday on I-95 in Wilson County ...

In North Carolina, pygmy rattlesnakes live close to metro areas. They can be found in Crowder’s Mountain State Park near Charlotte, for example, and in some counties in the Coastal Plains. A Complete ...