These needled cone-bearing trees are called conifers. Example of conifer trees include pine, fir, spruce and cedar. Some ...

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The Fraser Fir is one of the most beloved Christmas tree varieties, known for its excellent shape and fresh fragrance. Native ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the few places in the world for mining high-purity quartz, a key component needed for making microchips, solar panels and fiber-optic cables. But destruction ...

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For decades, the traditional Christmas tree in Britain has been the Norway spruce. But in recent years, sales of ‘non-drop’ varieties such as the Nordmann fir ... has a rich pine scent ...

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 ...

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.