A second incident of excessive force involving a Spruce Pine Officer also won't result in criminal charges. District Attorney ...

Scattered across the outskirts of Spruce Pine, a series of mines has been extracting some of the purest quartz on Earth for decades. The resource is so essential that almost every advanced ...

SPRUCE PINE - Mitchell County officials are still battling to restore potable water to most of the sparsely populated county ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...

Reports of more than 160 missing children in Spruce Pine are not true. In fact, there is only one person who first responders have not managed to locate since Tropical Storm Helene, according to ...

Spruce Pine couple Austen and Anna Wilson hold on to faith as they process Helene's destruction. "God's been good through every bit of it." Hurricane-prone states The day in pictures Get the USA ...

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 ...

SPRUCE PINE - Mitchell County officials are still battling to restore potable water to most of the sparsely populated county as one of its primary wastewater treatment facilities remains inoperable.