Firefighters have announced progress on containing two of the largest wildfires burning in the North Carolina mountains, but are warning that fire danger remains from dry and windy conditions.

Firefighters in North and South Carolina are battling multiple wind-driven wildfires.

Emergency crews in at least three states are battling small wildfires.

Florida’s citrus growers are struggling to survive the one-two punch of hurricanes and disease.

Not long ago, Polk County’s biggest draw was citrus.

Floodwaters in the Houston area and parts of Southeast Texas are starting to recede, allowing residents to begin returning to their homes and assess damages after days of heavy rainfall.

Three New York City boroughs have lost almost 80,000 residents from people moving away last year.

There's a low-tech remedy for the nitrate pollution affecting waterways in Iowa and elsewhere in the United States.

Two Iowa teenagers charged in a fatal shooting at a Des Moines school will be tried separately so one of the teens can testify in defense of the other.

The all-new Peppa Pig Theme Park will open as a certified autism center, leaders announced Tuesday at the IAAPA Expo at the Orange County Convention Center.

BENTON, Tenn. – The mayor of a Tennessee town died on Election Day when he was hoping to get reelected. WBIR reports the Mayor of Benton, Jerry Stephens, died at the age of 80. Election officials for Polk County, where Benton is located, said that the race is still considered active. Officials said that if Stephens wins the race, the winners of the two town commissioner seats will appoint a new mayor at their next meeting. According to WBIR, the vice mayor, Joe Jenkins, will serve as mayor until a new one is sworn in.

Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg works the grill at the Polk County Democrats' Steak Fry in Des Moines, Iowa. (CNN) - 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls on Saturday sought to galvanize their Iowa support at the Polk County Steak Fry with a strategy that's not frequented in the campaign playbook: dance. The Steak Fry marks just the latest event in the first-in-the-nation caucus state where candidates will pitch themselves as the best contender to take on President Donald Trump. Sen. Kamala Harris of California, who is looking to reframe her stagnating campaign by setting high expectations in Iowa, made her Steak Fry entrance alongside a marching drumline. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who captured 2% support in Iowa in a September CBS/YouGov Iowa poll, put on a similarly energetic display.