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

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

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Water Resources (DWR) has awarded more than $1.1 million ...

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 ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation has secured a three-year, $750,000 grant from the Dogwood Health Trust to support regional ...

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

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

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

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

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