Six months after the North Carolina General Assembly’s deadline to produce an annual budget, Western Carolina University in ...

Western Carolina University Athletics welcomed more than 1,000 Jackson County Public Schools students to campus for its ...

Nonprofits that provide legal services are calling for North Carolina’s General Assembly to unfreeze funds necessary to their ...

In late fall, after all the Halloween candy has been consumed and the fall décor removed from store clearance aisles, we step ...

Winter weather has arrived in Western North Carolina and the snow guns are blasting at the Cataloochee Ski Area in Haywood ...

The utter guile of this state’s GOP leaders to rig elections in their favor should cause a hue and cry from honorable, ...

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is celebrating 100 years and revamping its community supporters program. The Macon County ...

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is advising residents that it is illegal to keep deer as pets and unwise to try to ...

Backcountry rangers Lydia Williams and Jordan Gibeault have almost reached their destination, Kephart Prong Shelter, when ...

The word home evokes images that go deeper than its definition “the place where one lives.”  Home means more than a house or domicile. It speaks of a place you live, and also a place that lives within ...

The decision to secure over $10 million to build two new landfill cells was, in a sense, an easy one for Macon County commissioners to make, but what lies ahead is less certain.  The issue has come ...

For decades, college athletes generated millions of dollars in revenue for universities in exchange for a full tuition ...