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Cades Cove Loop Road will be fully closed for three weeks in September to allow crews to resurface the popular…
A group of Western North Carolina mountain biking enthusiasts has unveiled plans to bring the highest-elevation mountain bike trail on…
A paving project expected to last through the end of November is now underway on the Great Smoky Mountains National…
A new video highlighting the Smokies Hikes for Healing program, a hiking series that Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent…
“What happens to people who live inside their phones?” In his short novel The Silence (Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2020,…
The Smokies region is an outdoor mecca that attracts millions of people each year. For better or worse, that onslaught…
By Randy Siske • Contributing writer | Our “Breakfast Club” started eating together in 2006 just because we went to…
To the Editor: I am alarmed by the variety and sheer numbers of claims of election fraud we still see,…
To the Editor: This is in response to the recent letter by Carol Adams of Glenville: “Trump was 1,000 Percent…
To the Editor: On behalf of the Haywood County Senior Democrats, I would like to express our profound gratitude to…
Some people will say a gay woman who’s a Christian minister just can’t get elected in the South.
Coronavirus cases, deaths and hospitalizations are falling sharply around the region as vaccine coverage improves, providing a longed-for surge of…
On average, it costs parents $9,480 a year for infant childcare in North Carolina, which is $2,126 more than they’ll…
A plan that will guide the county’s economic development strategy for the next five years received unanimous support Feb. 16…
AT&T customers and FirstNet subscribers in Cherokee got a big boost in wireless connectivity. AT&T added a new cell tower…
The Smoky Mountain News team won 26 editorial awards in the 2020 North Carolina Press Association News and Editorial Contest.
A Jackson County man who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $95,000 from an enterprise of the Eastern Band of…
As if last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) wasn’t controversial enough — the stage resembled a rune with Nazi…
Despite calls to do so, a nonprofit health care foundation charged with managing more than $13 million of Haywood County…
Although the results of Haywood County’s comprehensive revaluation process haven’t yet been mailed out, county administrators and elected officials want…
Attendees of this year’s Hillbilly Winter Jam kicked off the annual fest with a special treat — a private visit…
There is perhaps no parcel of land in Haywood County that generates as much interest as the one that’s home…
In the depths of The One Stop in downtown Asheville on Saturday, members of the Travers Brothership and Abby Bryant…
Rest easy, “Big Jack” (aka: “Jack Kerouac”). Goodbye to my beloved cat, who passed away this week back in my…
Haywood County Health and Human Services has received notice of five more COVID-19 deaths, bringing the total number now to…
NC-11 Congressional Rep. Madison Cawthorn spent last week engaging with his constituents in the western reaches of the district.
Expanding on an existing partnership, Haywood County Emergency Services has contracted Haywood Vocational Opportunities, Inc. to manufacture COVID pod covers…
Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced the release of a video highlighting the Smokies Hikes for Healing program. In response to social…
By Barbara Durr, Asheville Watchdog — Priscilla Ndiaye Robinson looked across the empty fields where her Southside neighborhood once thrived. “It’s…
As vaccination of North Carolinians continues and positive coronavirus case reports decline, today Gov. Roy Cooper announced changes to a…
It’s not something that happens all that often, but a late fourth-quarter drive by Western North Carolina’s state and local…
A 1995 Haywood Community College graduate has received seven awards for his distinguished assistance to the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
The first trails at Canton’s Chestnut Mountain Park will be ready to ride before the leaves drop this fall thanks…
Hit the open road virtually at 11 a.m., Tuesday, March 2, for author Hawk Hagebak’s humorous take on motorcycling up…
Conservation groups are applauding a Feb. 11 order from Acting Secretary of the Interior Scott de la Vega that rescinds…
A recently completed conservation project in Hickory Nut Gap connects to an existing 1,500 acres of conserved land in southwestern…
Having recently read and reviewed for the Smoky Mountain Living magazine Vicki Lane’s And The Crows Took Their Eyes, a…
Another poll, another reality check for the media: Americans don’t trust us. The question that comes to mind, for me,…
I’d always heard having a puppy was a little like having a baby. I’ve learned over the past two months…
To the Editor: In the six weeks since being sworn in as North Carolina’s new 11th District representative in Congress,…
To the Editor: America has failed to punish Trump, the ex-president who has done so much harm to our country.
To the Editor: Senator Patrick Leahy (eight-term Democratic senator from Vermont) recently wrote a column charging former President Trump with…
District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch said a Macon County woman who was arrested as part of a multiple-person drug sting…
International private equity firm Cinven recently announced that it has agreed to make a significant investment into Drake Software, a…
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Foxfire has been collecting stories, memories, photographs and artifacts related to the experiences of…
When it was first scheduled, the Feb. 22 meeting of the Cashiers Area Community Planning Council was expected to be…
Weary and sore they came upon a small copse of Loblolly pines swaying high above a sea of softly undulating…
Widespread winter storms last week drastically slowed down vaccination efforts in Jackson County, which still has the lowest percentage of…
It’s Monday evening. A heavy rain is soaking Sylva and greater Jackson County. Passing by the Sylva Shopping Area, the…
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