Photo by John Payne WILSON’S MILLS – Johnston County firefighters were able to stop a fast moving woods fire Wednesday afternoon after they spotted the fire deep in the woods on Bear ...

Burning permits became available and the ban from burning covering all 100 North Carolina counties was lifted Wednesday, the same day three teens were arrested in South Carolina related to the Table ...

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 ...

This story will be updated throughout the day as new information about Western North Carolina wildfires becomes ...

Rain over the weekend helped fire crews in the region, and they hope more rain and thunderstorms will suppress wildfires ...

The weather has improved for firefighting, but wildfires continue to burn in WNC and the Upstate. Stay with the Citizen Times ...

Evacuation orders in Swain County, North Carolina, have been lifted as firefighters keep the wildfire north of Alarka Road.

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

The fire was first reported on March 20, caused by a downed power line. North Carolina remains under a statewide burn ban.

"The wildfires in western North Carolina continue to grow, so I have expanded our State of Emergency,” Stein said in a statement. “Our State Emergency Response Team is responding with every tool at ...

More than 20,000 acres of land have been burned from wildfires in the Carolinas near the South Carolina-North Carolina state ...