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For weeks, David Burke couldn’t shake the haunting images of small mountain communities in western North Carolina unexpectedly pummeled by a historic storm.

The state's black bear population was in trouble 50 years ago, but research and conservation measures put in place in the decades since -- with hunters' "direct cooperation" -- have enabled the ...

Clean energy advocates urged the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality on Friday to deny or modify two pending draft air permits for Duke Energy’s proposed Roxboro and Marshall gas-fired ...

Video captured in April shows a group of people in Asheville, North Carolina, pulling a black bear cub from a tree to pose ...

In April, a group of people in Asheville, North Carolina, were filmed pulling the cub from a tree to pose with it for photos, at one point dropping the frightened animal.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. ( WBTV /Gray News) - A bear cub who was taken out of a tree for selfies has been released back into the wild.

A black bear cub rescued after being harassed and pulled out of a tree for a photo op has been released back into the wild.

A black bear cub that was pulled from a tree for a selfie in North Carolina earlier this year has been successfully released ...

A bear cub that went viral earlier this year after being pulled from a tree for selfies has been rehabilitated and returned ...