Where once were surging floodwaters, now elected representatives from both the federal and state level are pouring into ...

The Macon County Planning Board voted last week to recommend a revision of the water supply watershed ordinance to the county ...

Around 7:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, Haley Ramey, co-owner of Soul Sisters Depot in Frog Level, began receiving calls from ...

It is difficult to know what to write after a disaster of the magnitude caused by Hurricane Helene. It certainly teaches us ...

The deadline to register for the November General Election is 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11. Voters can register at the county’s ...

This is not the end of our story in Western North Carolina. Far from it. It’s an opportunity for a new beginning, a reshaping ...

Among the multiple insults Donald Trump is hurling at Vice President Kamala Harris (other than purposely mispronouncing her ...

Michele Morrow is the Republican candidate for N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction. Think long and hard before voting ...

Let’s not sugarcoat it anymore. To call it “misinformation” is, in itself, misinformation. Let’s just call it what it is — ...

As I peruse the shelves in the Jackson County Library’s “new releases” section, it is evident to me that there are more new titles written by women than by men. And while this may be true in literary ...

Early October, and these mountains are already beginning to put on their glorious garments of autumn. A splash of red here or orange there, the green sleeves of many trees shading to yellow. In just a ...

Hurricane Helene has dealt serious damage to Pactiv Evergreen’s shuttered Canton paper mill, but the St. Louis-based demolition and development company owner trying to buy the 185-acre parcel remains ...