In some areas of the country, the choice between mulching with pine needles and wood mulch is a tough one. Since the 1980s, pine straw has been the favorite mulch in the South. It is inexpensive, ...

Love it or hate it, pine straw is everywhere if you live in the Southeast. The needles slowly drift down from loblollies and longleaf pines, blanketing lawns and driveways and piling on top of shrubs ...

When pine needles fall all over your lawn in the autumn, you don't have to haul them away. Here are some surprising uses for ...

If you have pine trees in your yard, you know just how many needles wind up falling from them every year. While some homeowners just rake them up, others want to find a way to use the needles in their ...

The City Council on Tuesday debated a suggestion by Mayor Charles Meeker to enact tougher restrictions on the use of pine straw in landscaping around Raleigh homes. The Raleigh Fire Department ...

Investigators are still trying to determine what caused a fire that displaced 29 residents of a Raleigh apartment complex on Wednesday. They also are looking at dried pine straw used mulch around the ...

Volunteers have gathered pine needles from across the state, and they will be compared to a unique museum archive to see how ...