One of the defiant elk roaming North Carolina’s mountains has gotten itself into an awkward predicament involving a ...

Invasive species pose a serious challenge for ecosystems that have not evolved alongside them, and such is the case with North Carolina's crystal skipper and the nonnative horses allowed to roam the ...

Long before it grows its classic black and orange wings, the Monarch butterfly begins its life among the hooded flowers of ...

An unusually early outbreak of bird flu cases affecting high numbers of wild birds and poultry farms across Europe and North ...

Wildlife officials are tracking Southeastern myotis bats exposed to the disease and living in a Wake County stormwater system ...

Stretching across 4,530 acres in the Sandhills, just 23 minutes from Fayetteville, this North Carolina state park offers ...

Tucked away in eastern North Carolina lies a natural masterpiece that deserves far more attention than it gets. Cliffs of the Neuse State Park in Seven Springs offers visitors 892 acres of ...

The Tar Heel State is rapidly joining the ranks of the best places in the U.S. to retire, and with laid-back towns like this ...

The park’s location in Wayne County makes it accessible for day trips from several major North Carolina population centers. It’s about an hour’s drive from Raleigh, making it perfect for capital city ...

A motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when the carcass of a cat crashed into the passenger side of her front windshield along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Birders are all aflutter after a yellow-headed caracara, a bird native to South America, was spotted in the area of the ...

The first update to a local State of the Birds report in 14 years shows restoration working—and some puzzling declines.