Where to see fireflies this early summer is drawing attention as nature’s light show returns across the country. This summer’s firefly displays bring out rare ... Read moreThe post Where ...

The wildfire on Friday had burned more than 5,700 acres in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. Most of the blaze is in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.

SUNBURY – An Ahoskie man lost his life in a motor vehicle accident near here last week. Alphonso Jenkins, age 77, was killed in an accident that also involved two commercial trucks. Trooper Chamblee ...

Although many alligators live just a few miles away in North Carolina, a natural barrier keeps them out of the Great Dismal Swamp, Freeman said. But, be wary, nonetheless, where you step.

Ever been kayaking through a primordial swamp where bald cypress trees rise from green waters like ancient guardians? Merchants Millpond State Park in Gatesville, North Carolina is that ... you’ll ...

The Great Dismal Swamp, as the name given to it by ... G.K. Butterfield from northeastern North Carolina. A similarly promising idea is underway to designate Fort Monroe in Hampton and several ...

the Appalachian Mountains and the Great Dismal Swamp in parts of North Carolina and Virginia. The game’s audio designer, Chris Fox, said they got rashes from poison sumac in the swamp while they ...

The Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area will involve coordination across state lines since the Virginia-North Carolina border slices directly through the swamp. In 2003, the Northern Neck ...

The National Park Service is asking members of the public to share their thoughts about a potential National Heritage Area designation in the region of the Great Dismal Swamp, a ...

The proposed Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area is in the middle of a three-year feasibility study process. That includes a public comment period, which is open now until May 19th.

from 1999), and headed for the Great Dismal Swamp—which sounds allegorical but is a real location, a forbidding stretch of wetland on the Virginia–North Carolina border. Frost seems to have ...

the private security contractor that became a notorious symbol of the US war in Iraq, set out across the company’s training base in the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina.