The wildfire, named the Crooked Creek Fire, ignited near the town of Old Fort, which was impacted by Hurricane Helene last September.

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

How much does it cost to rename military bases and American landmarks? Spoiler alert: millions of dollars – and maybe a ...

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, which scholars have spent hundreds of years searching for.

North Carolina, in 1590. Getty Images Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analysed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John White, ...

Political handicappers like the Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball are predicting that Democrats have few ...

The only clue left behind was the word Croatoan carved on a wooden post. An ancient map dating back 400 years, titled La Virginea Pars and exhibited at the British Museum, was examined by experts, ...

Here’s the connection between our roads and the men for whom they’re named and why we we ended up with so many.

These are some of the trails we discovered with the help of this handy guidebook and maps I snagged ... Cherokee, North Carolina. The Blue Ridge Mountains are at the epicenter of American roots music, ...