Crews will continue mop-up operations across the Black Cove Complex on Thursday, April 3. Firefighters will focus on ...

Fire restrictions on National Forest lands. The U.S. Forest Service reminds that building, maintaining, attending or using a ...

The Alarka Five Fire has now burned 1,515 acres and remains at 37% containment, according to Swain County Emergency ...

The North Carolina State Fire Marshal is asking for help from fire departments nationwide to come to Polk County and help ...

A Saluda inn houses Helene survivors, mere miles from where firefighters battle blazes. Some say Helene could impact WNC ...

Polk County officials are urging some residents who live near uncontrolled fires to "leave now" as two of the fires surge ...

Wildfires continue to rage in Western North Carolina and the South Carolina Upstate. Stay with the Citizen Times Saturday for live updates.

More than 50 fire departments and more than 300 personnel from North Carolina and other states are deployed on the ground to ...

Fires in Polk and Henderson counties grew on March 24, despite a short period of rain. The fires now span over 5,750 acres ...

The good news is that WNC's worst fires, the Black Cove and Deep Woods fires in Polk County, were partially contained Wednesday, March 26, by a large presence of firefighters after having 0% ...

A massive wildfire burning in South Carolina jumped the border Saturday and was spreading Sunday into North Carolina.

The worst fires in the region are in Polk County, the Black Cove Complex Fire and the Deep Woods Fire, which have combined to burn about 6,000 acres by the evening of March 25 and were at 0% ...