Current State Rep. Jennifer Balkcom will replace Chuck Edwards as the Republican on the ballot for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District seat. Balkcom was nominated by the district GOP ...

Members of the public were invited to tour the site of Canton’s former paper mill on Aug. 13 for the first time since it shut ...

Current State Rep. Jennifer Balkcom will replace Chuck Edwards as the Republican on the ballot for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District seat.  Following Rep. Chuck Edwards’ announcement last ...

Pedestrian access to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Fontana Dam begins with a metal turnstile, then a long stretch of ...

It was revealed during an Aug. 4 Swain Commission meeting that Sheriff Brian Kirkland invited three deputies and their families on a five-night trip to Myrtle Beach to attend a conference — almost ...

High speed and big air were the orders of the day, and Haywood County’s BMX riders were happy to oblige.  On Aug. 8, the long-awaited Raccoon Creek Bike Park in Waynesville opened to the public, also ...

Restoration House staff didn’t hesitate when they found a familiar woman suffering from a panic attack, lying face-down in the dirt. Once Dedey Mathis was safely inside their vehicle, they drove off ...

When Mack Tallant returned home to Western North Carolina to practice law in 1995, he was one of five attorneys based out of ...

The next installment of the “Conversations with Storytellers” series will continue with Dr. Nancy Tolson at 6 p.m. Thursday, ...

In best-selling and award-winning author Robert Macfarlane’s new book, “Is the River Alive?” (2025, 374 pages) the title’s question, “Is the river alive?” jumps out at you even before you’ve turned ...

The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to change fees at three recreation areas on the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests in North Carolina. The public is invited to provide input to proposed fee ...

Pretzels.” The young woman and her companion had rolled into the same trailside establishment as us and slid wearily off their bikes, but no one had told us anything about pretzels. We are on the ...