A neighborhood group wants to stop the city’s plan of eliminating permit parking to make way for new loading zones and adding ...

Loading zones on Spruce and Pine streets are being installed to try to accommodate the need for making brief stops.

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and ...

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane ...

Its mines are north of downtown in an area called the Spruce Pine Mining District. On Google Maps they look like wide, white sandy beaches. Sibelco is one of two quartz mining operations in Spruce ...