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

The long and storied tradition that is the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games returns to MacRae Meadows on Thursday, July 10 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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