Photo by Rachel Luna/Getty Images Tim Sweeney, the man behind Epic Games and Fortnite, is buying up thousands of acres in North Carolina. No, he's not looking to build a strip mall or a series of ...

Two nonprofits — Access Fund and the Carolina Climbers Coalition — recently purchased more than 16 acres of land near Chimney ...

In 1972, Selma developer A.Z. Thompson Jr. bought roughly 100 acres of premium land — including a 1930s-era millhouse, lake and dam — in northern Johnson County. Over the years, Thompson added more ...

Once, there were very different plans for this mountain land — one of the largest swaths of private forestland remaining in ...

A Western North Carolina-based land trust has now conserved over 50,000 acres of parks, trails, wetlands, working forests and ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The coastal city has invested in ...

Southport officials are moving forward with plans to sell hundreds of acres of city-owned land near Sunny Point. In a majority vote in February, the Southport Board of Aldermen cemented its intent to ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A piece of prime land in ...

North Carolina’s western mountains, still healing from Hurricane Helene’s devastation in September 2024, faced a new crisis in early 2025 as wildfires scorched thousands of acres, forcing evacuations ...