In a shaded clearing near Mingus Mill lies a cemetery. Small, unmarked rocks sit at the head and foot of each plot, adorned ...

Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran has been charged with several crimes after allegedly soliciting two women for sexual acts ...

In a move more than a half-century in the making, the Town of Canton has announced the pending purchase of a key parcel of ...

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

We probably all know people who claim they have been “bad” over the weekend. Often that means all of their typical ...

I have always been a sucker for a good love story, so when I was told that J. M. Coetzee — who has been awarded the Nobel ...

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

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

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

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Water Resources (DWR) has awarded more than $1.1 million ...

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

A  proposed resolution that expressed support for the Fontana Regional Library system didn’t survive the first four minutes ...