In the week ending November 1, 2024, the price of benchmark softwood lumber item Western Spruce-Pine-Fir 2x4 #2&Btr KD (RL) ...

Major B.C. companies like Canfor and West Fraser now operate more sawmills in the United States than they do in Canada, ...

Mitchell County, NC — A second incident of excessive force involving a Spruce Pine Officer also won't result in criminal ...

A shrinking timber supply has turned B.C. into a high-cost jurisdiction. There have been more than a dozen sawmill and pulp ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the week ending October 18, 2024, the price of benchmark softwood lumber item Western Spruce-Pine-Fir 2x4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was US$402 mfbm. This is up +$14, or +4%, from the previous week when it was ...

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.

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 ...