Editor's note: this story has been updated with a statement from Cynthia Mason Womble, acting chair of the Fontana Regional ...

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

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The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation has secured a three-year, $750,000 grant from the Dogwood Health Trust to support regional ...

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

As I read the article about “Jexit,” I found myself wondering about the word “ideology.” In the article, proponents of taking ...

The long and storied tradition that is the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games returns to MacRae Meadows on Thursday, July 10 ...

As a retired physician assistant who devoted a long career to public health in Macon County, I am deeply concerned by the ...

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

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

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

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