“If you are an angler, boater, fish or bug, the Tuckasegee River is better with the Dillsboro Dam removed,” says U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologist Mark Cantrell. (photo by ...

The Ela Dam opened in 1925 across the Oconaluftee River in Swain County, on the Tennessee border. It's 36 feet high and a little more than a football field wide. A half-mile downstream, the ...

High Falls, or Cullowhee Falls, a 25-minute drive south of the town with the same name, used to tumble powerfully into the West Fork Tuckasegee River all year round. In 1941, a dam was constructed ...

Duke Energy dam demolition aids imperiled species. Expand. Sicklefin redhorse Expand to read more. 1 of 2 ...

It’s the week paddlers from across the state and even the nation look forward to all year; it’s also the week Swain County ...

The basin’s hydroelectric dams, built between 1918 and 1962, were merely the crowning blows, the walls across the river that definitively blocked salmon from upper basin spawning grounds.

The U.S. Forest Service removed thousands of tons rock, soil and woody debris over the weekend from the Nantahala River, closed since Aug. 29.

Hurricane Helene plowed through the N.C. mountains Friday, shutting the region down and leaving thousands without power, with some counties urging evacuations. The National Weather Service issued ...

The bystander, a world champion canoeist, quickly jumped into action when he saw a mother and daughter fall out of their tube in the rapids of a western North Carolina river.

CULLOWHEE – The Jackson County Sheriff's Office is investigating the drowning of a Western Carolina University student in the Tuckasegee River. Timothy Michael Adams, 18, was pronounced dead at ...