Editor's note: this story has been updated with a statement from Cynthia Mason Womble, acting chair of the Fontana Regional ...

I have always been a sucker for a good love story, so when I was told that J. M. Coetzee — who has been awarded the Nobel ...

As a retired physician assistant who devoted a long career to public health in Macon County, I am deeply concerned by the ...

As I read the article about “Jexit,” I found myself wondering about the word “ideology.” In the article, proponents of taking ...

It starts the same way, most times — sirens in the distance, a frantic call, a body on the floor — but what happens next in ...

Haywood County Emergency Management Officer Zack Koonce has been named a 2025 recipient of the “Heroic Hands” Award, ...

Ellen Pitt has dedicated the last two and a half decades to combatting drunk driving in Western North Carolina, and the one ...

North Carolina is drought-free in the latest advisory issued Thursday by the North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council (DMAC), marking the first time since Oct. 15 that the state has been ...

Great American Bash” will feature Americana/rock sensation The Brothers Gillespie and The Borrowed Band (country/western) on ...

It’s the week paddlers from across the state and even the nation look forward to all year; it’s also the week Swain County ...

We probably all know people who claim they have been “bad” over the weekend. Often that means all of their typical ...

Heavy rains on the afternoon of June 18 led to a substantial rockslide on the Tennessee side of the state line that caused a ...