The Western North Carolina town possesses the world’s most pure quartz, making its two mine operations essential to the ...

Reports that there are more than 160 missing children in Spruce Pine are not true, and in fact, Mitchell County has only one ...

Ten feet of water left the place in ruins. The communication blackout leaves the community to guess at whether their friends ...

Planting of new spruce trees is being banned in parts of East Anglia and South East England as part of new measures to limit the impact of an invasive beetle. The Ips typographus, or larger eight ...

SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (WGHP) — The area along the river is lined with local businesses in Spruce Pine. All of the buildings are filled with mud, and all the items inside are destroyed.

Similar to the mountain pine beetle epidemic in the early-2000s, spruce beetles lay their eggs under the bark of the impacted tree. The process effectively girdles the tree, cutting off the water ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN)– A Raleigh woman is still waiting for the ability to make direct contact with her son in Spruce Pine after Hurricane Helene devastated the area ...

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane ...

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane ...

Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane Helene, Belgian mining company Sibelco announced Thursday it has restarted operations in the Western North Carolina town ...