COROLLA, N.C. — After a fungus-like disease known as "swamp cancer" claimed the lives of seven wild ponies on a Virginia island, wild horses in North Carolina's Outer Banks are being monitored for ...

The Great Dismal Swamp is home to the ancestral lands of the Nansemond Indian Nation and the historic lands of the Haliwa-Saponi and Meherrin Tribes. The area is also home to the largest known ...

Colonel William E. Byrd, the colonial ancestor of Virginia’s Senator Harry F. Byrd, named the place the Great Dismal Swamp. After trekking through the muck and mire with a band of hardy surveyors, ...

“I felt I was entering a mysterious place,” said author Amina Luqman-Dawson. “The smell was mossy, earthy, and the trees were so tall, with leaves that cast shadows.” Luqman-Dawson is describing the ...

Greenville's popular Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail continues to gain regional acclaim. Readers of Blue Ridge Country magazine named the Swamp Rabbit as the No. 3 trail for biking in the 2023 Best ...

SALISBURY, Md. – Four Chincoteague, Virginia, ponies afflicted with swamp cancer, the mysterious disease that also killed ponies earlier this year, were euthanized, officials announced Friday. The ...