Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Staring down at it from a swinging bridge last weekend, that was obvious. It was big and loud, ...

Victoria Falls, known locally as Mosi oa Tunya, earns its name 'Smoke That Thunders' from the immense mist rising like smoke and the deafening roar of the Zambezi River plunging into a narrow gorge.

Home to a 65-foot waterfall known locally as Big Falls, the Elk River Falls Area within the Pisgah National Forest is reopening on July 11 after several months of Helene debris clearing. Visitors are ...