The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allocated a combined $686 million to North Carolina for Hurricane Helene-related ...

Adam Smith, GOP primary candidate for Congress in the 11th district, had this to say about actual legitimate rallies or protests: “Let’s define it — ‘terror’ is the use of violence or the threat of ...

I sent this letter via email to our congressmen, Rep. Chuck Edwards and Sens. Ted Budd and Thom Tillis. In Bryson City, I'm preparing to vote in the Primary. We’re a poor county; most of the property ...

As former justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court, we’re writing with an urgent message. Please plan on voting in the Primary Election on Tuesday, March 3, by either early voting or on Election ...

You ever watch something happen in local government and think, “There’s no way they expect us to buy this?” That’s exactly how the push to change Macon County’s voting districts feels. Commissioner ...

Approaching the Harrah’s Cherokee Center in downtown Asheville last Wednesday evening, a mob scene had overtaken the ...

Florida-based indie/soul singer-songwriter Shane Meade will perform at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at Mountain Layers Brewing ...

Classic rock/R&B act The V8s will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at Lazy Hiker Brewing in Franklin. Most of The V8s have been playing in various bands (often together) since 1975. The outcome is ...

Western Carolina University’s annual “Juried Undergraduate Exhibition” will run through March 20 at the Fine Art Museum on campus in Cullowhee. To note, an awards ceremony and reception will be held ...

From bears and bobcats to eagles and elk, 22,893 species have been documented so far in Great Smoky Mountains National Park — and nearly half of them are insects. Becky Nichols, the park’s long-time ...

They left campus on foot — with signs raised, chants echoing across the valley under clear blue winter skies — turning a routine civic act into a noisy, high-visibility public rebuke. On Feb. 13, ...

Over the past decade or more, Western North Carolina Republicans have proven that the only candidates that can beat incumbent ...