While rain still had not hit the 800-acre fire at Shortoff, the 67-acre fire near Cold Mountain is 100 percent contained.

Owners of Mountain House Assisted Living Facility are “heartbroken” over the actions of several former employees.

Horn in the West director Sherry Elledge-Grapes’ first appearance in the show was when she was two-years-old.

Tonight marks a relaxing cultural event in Blowing Rock: The Blowing Rock Thursday Gallery Stroll.

Good news for the approximately 300 firefighters in Linville- both the 500-acre Dobson Knob wildfire and the third blaze, 70 acres located near Cold Mountain in Avery County, had rain overnight.