The spider was first seen in the park on Oct. 17, and again more recently. Both sightings were reported in Cades Cove.

Though Asheville and Western North Carolina as a whole have been through a lot since Tropical Storm Helene swept through the ...

Asheville School returns to the NCISAA Division II championship game for the third straight year, among other Week 12 WNC ...

An 11-mile section of the road opened Wednesday near Asheville, between U.S. 70 and N.C. 191 near the N.C. Arboretum. That ...

It's not surprising the strikingly large, colorful spiders native to Asia have reached the national park. What does it mean ...

They’ve been spreading ever since, and on Oct. 17, Great Smoky Mountains National Park recorded its ... The spider’s presence ...

The Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee are the tallest mountains in the Appalachian chain, hosting the world's greatest diversity of plant, animal, and insect life of any region in a ...

At least two invasive Joro spiders have been spotted in Cades Cove, a Great Smoky Mountains National Park spokesperson ...

A coalition of Haywood County community organizations, quasi-governmental institutions, local businesses and private individuals have stepped in where the North Carolina General Assembly wouldn’t — by ...

A “famed Indian yoga guru ” visiting the United States is believed to have died of cardiac arrest while hiking the Virginia ...

The North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council has classified most of the state, or parts of 89 counties, as ...

In the wake of Hurricane Helene flooding areas of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, a new research study hopes to not only determine what ...