Favored snake habitats: Copperheads love pine straw, dried leaves or brush, or dense, low-growing ground cover like English ivy ... venomous snake, North Carolina Poison Control in Charlotte ...

Brood XIV is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that emerge every 13 or 17 years. This year they'll be in states such as ...

A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Friday ... funding to the University of Pennsylvania, alleging the Ivy League university’s policies are "forcing women to ...

Use a broadleafed weedkiller (containing 2,4-D and perhaps two other herbicides blended together) to kill and control poison ivy.

Another fire, the Bee Rock Branch Fire, near Little Switzerland in McDowell County started April 14 and has grown to 175 ...

With the warm spring weather, plants are growing, including the poisonous variety such as poison ivy, poison oak and poison ...

according to the North Carolina Forest Service wildfire map. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service warned that the Carolinas would face fire danger throughout the rest of the week. "The ...