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

For the rest of “While the Town Slept” writers William Johnstone his nephew, J.A. Johnstone, bring us along for the ride as ...

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

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

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

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

Standing on the precipice of their 20th anniversary, The SteelDrivers aren’t looking over their shoulders at the road to the ...

This Easter season — a time for moral reflection and renewal — I feel compelled to speak to the direction of our national ...

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

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

Rising singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alma Russ will hit the stage at 6 p.m. Friday, April 25, at Mountain ...

I appreciate your straightforward and informative coverage of the removal of the plaque over Sylva Sam’s Confederate flag. I ...