But thanks in part to trees planted in areas where the two fungi don’t grow well, the American chestnut isn’t extinct. And efforts to revive it in its native range have continued, despite the long ...

MURRAY COUNTY, Ga. — UPDATE: All 13 people were safely rescued. You can read about the rescue in our new story here. Original story: Emergency crews are working to rescue 13 people who became stranded ...

MURRAY COUNTY, Ga. — Search and rescue crews in north Georgia are working to rescue 13 people who slid off a mountain on Saturday afternoon. Murray County officials say more than a dozen people slid ...

Asheville, North Carolina , Jan. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Appalachian Mountain Health (AMH), a Federally Qualified Health Center serving Western North Carolina, has experienced significant growth ...

Sarah Thomas was cooking dinner one January evening when her phone buzzed with a Ring Camera notification. She expected to see a raccoon or house cat walking through her yard in the Laguna Hills ...

A person who'd gone looking for four others who hadn't returned from a hike was killed in Anza this weekend. Their body was found at the bottom of a 150-foot rock face, the Riverside County Sheriff's ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A passenger aircraft carrying 11 people lost contact with ground control Saturday while approaching a mountainous region between Indonesia’s main island of Java and Sulawesi ...

Iranians leaving their country spoke to RFE/RL about the scale of the deadly crackdown on protests. The death toll is at more than 2,600 demonstrators, according to the US-based human rights monitor ...

Stephen Acabado receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation. Indigenous communities have lived with changes to the climate for centuries. Their adaptations over those many years are based on their ...

BLOWING ROCK, N.C. — The North Carolina ski industry is preparing for one of its most important weekends of the season. The weekend leading up to Martin Luther King Jr. Day accounts for a large part ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The North Carolina ski industry is preparing for one of its most important weekends of the season. The weekend leading up to ...