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 food/beverage and activity/exercise habits are thrown out the window. Instead they ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

At this point, I would like to tell you about my great-great grandfather, Bryant Carden, who joined the Confederacy. Bryant was known for writing wonderful letters in calligraphy, and the illustration ...