North Carolina power outage map Major North Carolina power outages Outages greater than 80% as of 12:48 p.m. ET Polk County: 100% McDowell County: 100% Ashe County: 100% Henderson County: 99.8% ...

While it's rather remote in comparison to other tourism hubs in North Carolina, anyone already committed to driving Blue Ridge Parkway will find Boone an easy place to visit. Roughly equidistant ...

Jennifer Replogle, a pregnant mother of two young children, is “completely trapped” at home in Tater Hill, North Carolina, elevation 4,200 feet, above Boone, where hurricanes are not the norm.

Boone’s summertime temperatures average in the high 70s, a striking difference when compared to North Carolina’s Piedmont region — where you’ll find Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel ...

Cities rarely if ever go to these lengths to support a declining species, says Hill. “But Boone, North Carolina, has made it one of their missions to protect the species,” he adds.