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

A ban on all open burning in North Carolina will be lifted as of 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 2. A statewide ban went into effect ...

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

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

From this vantage point, Bill Wilson watches as Chinook helicopters, spotter planes and air tankers launch an aerial fight ...

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

COLUMBUS, N.C. (WNCN/AP) — In North Carolina, at least eight fires are still burning in the mountains. Two of the three ...

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% ...

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

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

Over 7,000 acres are burning in Black Cove and Deep Woods fires in Henderson and Polk counties. The Black Cove fire is 23% contained, according to the North Carolina Fire Weather Intelligence ...