By this point, more than six months after Hurricane Helene barreled through Western North Carolina, it’s a common sight.

The North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council has classified most of the state as at least abnormally dry with only ...

Since President Trump, by the will of the majority of American voters, has come into office he has given a multitude of ...

Here in Western North Carolina, we know the value of independence, personal responsibility and limited government. That’s why ...

The Jackson County ‘Headwaters District’ Conservation Plan seeks to apply an objective, fact-based approach to assessing the ...

Plant Sale will be 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Nanci Weldon Memorial Gym.   For sale will be a few thousand ...

In response to a public records request made by The Smoky Mountain News, Jackson County Manager Kevin King revealed that ...

In a town where history lives not just in the pages of books but on every brick-lined sidewalk, beneath every gabled rooftop ...

REACH, the Haywood County nonprofit that provides aid to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, has a new director.

As a young child, growing up right outside of London, Dan Tapster fondly remembers watching David Attenborough’s nature ...

To prescribe term limits for what ails Congress is like offering bleach for COVID-19. It can’t help. It is likely to make ...

The four-state mountain region that includes Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to an estimated 14,500 black bears, ...