Foothills Conservancy of NC opens new hiking trail in South Mountains of Burke County in honor of founding board member Bob ...

Apple released iOS 18.3 in January, and that update brought a few bug fixes and improvements to your iPhone. But when Apple ...

Nine hiking trails are stretching five miles in the northern portions of this 465-acre natural area, offering breathtaking ...

The most popular is Pigeon Creek Park which features cross-country ski, skate ski and snowshoe trails in addition to a ...

Residents can explore around the remnants of an abandoned coal mine in OC’s backcountry with Irvine Ranch Conservancy.

For our Wellness Issue, we asked folks in Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Madison and Transylvania counties to identify one ...

In my column in the Jan. 23 edition of The Independent, I wrote about the many features in the EXPLORE Act, a single piece of ...

I climbed the 3.6-mile loop over Red Hill (2030 feet) in Center Harbor with Tamworth friends Pam and Bruce Andruskiewicz. It ...

Alex Shapiro, director for the Minnesota Driftless Hiking Trail, reviewed progress made for the trail at the board’s January ...