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 ...

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 ...

At this point, I would like to tell you about my great-great grandfather, Bryant Carden, who joined the Confederacy. Bryant ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Nothing says summer more than the Fourth of July with friends and family. And in Western North Carolina, we celebrate ...

I have just finished reviewing the comments and commissioner discussion from the June 3 Jackson commissioner meeting in regard to leaving the Fontana Regional Library system. I want to thank Mr.