Less than a month ago, a raging Brunswick County wildfire was raining ash down on Wilmington more than 30 miles away. Hazy, choking smoke from the smoldering inferno spread even farther across ...

WEAVER — I wasn’t sure what to expect from Weaver Bottoms, or fishing, as I waited for Jake Schultz at a backwater landing. The large backwater south of Kellogg where I’ve fished, hunted, canoed and ...

As spring unfolds, nature unfurls billions of multi-colored flags per acre: leaves and shoots, some tender some tough, flowers of every hue, bird eggs, some speckled, some sky blue. Every blade of ...

For her Girl Scouts gold award project, 16-year-old Sarah Bryner of Prince Frederick thought about one of her favorite places growing up: Battle Creek Cypress Swamp. “Every time I had been here I had ...